Here is a poor man's failover scheme.
Copy primary boot disk to second disk. If primary boot disk fails, reboot to the secondary's disk instead of rebuilding the OS.
- umount secondary disk's partition
- newfs the filesystems
- remount the partition
- perform disk to disk copy
- copy prepared /etc/vfstab2 to secondary disk's /etc/vfstab
- issue installboot command
#!/bin/sh # ========================================================================== #---< slash2 /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 >-------- # ========================================================================== # mkdir /.SLASH2 /.USR2 /.VAR2 echo Backing up `hostname` root partition from disk 0 to disk 1 : `date` /usr/sbin/umount /.SLASH2 /usr/sbin/newfs /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 <-------- # ========================================================================== echo
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Michael S. Mimoso, Editorial DirectorBacking up `hostname` /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 from disk 0 to disk 1 : `date` /usr/sbin/umount /.USR2 /usr/sbin/newfs /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s5 <-------- # ========================================================================== echo Backing up `hostname` /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 from disk 0 to disk 1 : `date` /usr/sbin/umount /.VAR2 /usr/sbin/newfs /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s6 < ...and so on and so on for remaining partitions
This was first published in January 2003