Originally posted by: brembo

i have got a rs 6000 model 7029-6E8 with a failed drive, the system is not booting which means that the drive which failed is the with rootvg and there was no mirrioring i would want to access the data that is on the other drives. how can i got about this problem.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Do yo know if there were any free disks available to reinstall the OS?

If not, replace the old rootvg disk.

Once you have a disk you can install on , install the version of OS you had on the box on that single drive.

Once the OS is installed you can import the other volume group to get the data ( assuming those disks are ok )

Assume you install to hdisk1 rootvg

and there are hdisk2 hdisk3 hdisk6

You can use importvg -y myvg hdisk2
The importvg will import the volume group on hdisk2 ( and any other disks inb the VG ) .
Repeat this for the number of VGs you had.
I have done this several times in the best and been successful.
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