mats.oberg@tietoenator.com writes:
Hi, All you need to do is copy the etc-directory from the root volume to your other volume,
Then if your root-volume fails, you floppy-boot and select your other volume as root volume, reboot and all is well...
I wonder whether such copying is entirely safe. In some releases of ONTAP certain actions cause /etc on a non-root volume to be created and files put there, the overwriting of which by the proposed copying might have evil consequences.
For example, at one time (pre-6.0, I think) turning quotas on for the non-root volume did this, creating files in /etc/db there. And more recently taking a backup dump would create files in /etc/tmp and in /etc/oldmaps/bkp. I don't know of anything that mucks with /etc on a non-root volume in 6.2 or later, though.
One could copy to /etc_safety_copy on the non-root volume instead, of course, and then use the not-so-secret "mv" command to rename it as /etc as part of the recovery process.
Chris Thompson Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk