[Info-vax] Need help mounting shadow set

[Kari Uusimäki]

Tom Adams wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2:04 pm, Joseph Huber <joseph.hu... at NIRWANA.web.de> wrote:
>> tadamsmar schrieb:
>>
>>> I had to replace one of my disks that was logging errors.  I bought
>>> exactly the same make and model disk.  But it will not mount.  I am
>>> getting an error saying the disk is too small.
>>> The new disk shows:
>>> Disk $1$DKA100: (EESN), device type COMPAQ ST32171W, is online, file-
>> [snip] ...
>>>     Total blocks             4110000    
>>> The current system disk that I want to shadow shows:
>>> Disk DSA0:, device type DEC RZ1BB-CS, is online, mounted, file-
>> [snip]...
>>
>>>     Total blocks             4110480    
>> The disk might be the same physically, but apparently has different
>> firmware leading to different "device type", and slightly less blocks:
>> these tiny 480 blocks missing.
>>
>> --
>>
>>   Joseph Huber   -http://www.huber-joseph.de
> 
> I guess I can do a copy to the new disk and then boot with it as the
> shadow master,  then I can add the old disk to the shadow set.
> 
> Is there a way to do a direct copy. Or do I have to do a backup image
> and then copy to the other disk?

You can do backup/image directly to the other disk and then boot from it.