Recovering a VxVM volume using NetBackup

To enable NetBackup to recover objects on a VxVM volume, use the following procedure. This procedure performs an Instant Recovery (IR) using a VxVM volume.

To recover objects in a VxVM volume using NetBackup

  1. Initialize the VxVM volume to zeros.
  2. Recover the VxVM volume to the newly initialized VxVM volume.
  3. Mount the VxFS file system on the empty VxVM volume.
  4. Verify the cksum(1) values against the files recovered.