Use the metadata command to recover
a virtualization table.
Syntax
sataskmetadata -rebuildcluster
sataskmetadata -scan -filefilename_arg -diskUID_arg -startstart_arg [ -endend_arg ]
sataskmetadata -dump -diskUID_arg -startstart_arg
Parameters
- satask
- System Administrator task; service commands that are only used
in specific circumstances.
- -rebuildcluster
- Creates a cluster from the metadata found in /dumps/t3_recovery.bin created
by the -dump process.
- -scan
- Scan the specified MDisk or drive for system metadata.
- -dump
- Dump metadata from the specified MDisk or drive
to file /dumps/t3_recovery.bin
- -endend_arg
- The last LBA in which to look for metadata on the disk.
- -filefilename_arg
- Specifies the file in which you want the results of a scan operation.
The file is placed into the node in the directory /dumps ,
and can be retrieved using Secure Copy (scp). The
file can be subsequently cleaned using the cleardumps command.
- -diskUID_arg
- Specifies the UID of the MDisk or drive that you want to scan,
or remove a dump from.
- -startstart_arg
- Specifies the following conditions:
- When used with -scan: The first LBA in which to look for metadata on the
disk.
- When used with -dump: The first LBA at which the metadata resides (as
reported in the scan file).
Description
Use
this command to recover a virtualization table.
Use
the lscmdstatus command to see the status of the
command.
An invocation example
satask metadata -scan -file scan.0.xml -disk 600a0b80000f14ee0000008e4146bdee00000000000000000000000000000000 -start 0
The
resulting output:
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