Re: Upograding mirrored system?

From: Dragan Cvetkovic (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:43:50 -0400

Tony Walton <tonywalton@beeteeconnect.com> writes:

> On 2004-07-30 15:16:45 +0100, Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net> said:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am planning an upgrade of my U2 to the latest Solaris 9 version (0/04)
>> and I have a fairly simple question: the system is mirrored (two disks)
>> using SVM (don't know the version, but the current OS version on that
>> system is Solaris 9 01/04). Is there anything special that I need to do
>> before (or after) upgrading (like breaking the mirror) for the upgrade to
>> work? Or would the installation process do everything by itself?
>
> Solaris 9 should be happy to upgrade with no intervention to SVM (such as
> breaking mirrors) at all.

Excellent. Great to know that. Thanks Tony.

>
> That's the first thing I tried when I got my paws on the first pre-release
> Solaris 9 with SVM integrated - I set up a mirrored swap and root
> configuration on Solaris 8/DiskSuite 4.2.1 and upgraded to Solaris 9. I
> was very pleasantly surprised with the results.

I hope I would be too. Well, I have a long weekend in front of me (Civic
Holiday in Canada), so even if it breaks, I can rebuild the system.

> Of course the usual caveats apply; YMMV, always take a backup first.

Of course. The second mirror is the backup :-)

Just joking, of course.

Bye, Dragan 

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