Re: Accidentially Removed a Volume Group

From: Gipson, Mat (Mat.Gipson_at_AMERICREDIT.COM)
Date: 04/28/04

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    Date:         Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:35:01 -0500
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    After conferring with a colleague it is very rare that you would every see ".. Other SCSI Disk Drive" output from an lsdev output. You may want to check the health of the SCSI controller for these disks. Have these drives always showed this output? Do you have all your device drivers installed? All these might be shots in the dark if these lv's and disks worked with no problem before your remove....but that then prompts me to ask why did you want to delete the VG in the first place.

    HTH,
    Mathew Gipson

    -----Original Message-----
    From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Lieberg, Patrick
    Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 10:10 AM
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Subject: Re: Accidentially Removed a Volume Group

    Did you try this command:

    recreatevg -y vgname hdiskxxx hdiskxxx hdiskxxx

    as suggested by John? The importvg will not work if the disks are missing the VG descriptor area info.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU]On Behalf Of
    Bengt Mutén
    Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 4:42 PM
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Subject: Re: Accidentially Removed a Volume Group

    I appreciate Bob, John, and Bills' suggestions. However, I am still stuck

    I managed to remove the volume group information on these three physical
    drives by running this script from smit:

       xlist () { VGID=`getlvodm -v $1`; if test $? -ne 0
       then
         exit 1
       fi
       Q1=`getlvodm -w $VGID | cut -f2 -d' '`; echo $Q1; }; xlist ''

    I can then not import volume groups from:

    hdisk0 Available 04-B0-00-0,0 Other SCSI Disk Drive
    hdisk1 Available 04-B0-00-1,0 Other SCSI Disk Drive
    hdisk2 Available 04-B0-00-2,0 Other SCSI Disk Drive

    For each one I get:

    0516-066 lqueryvg: Physical volume is not a volume group member.
            Check the physical volume name specified.
    0516-066 lqueryvg: Physical volume is not a volume group member.
            Check the physical volume name specified.
    0516-562 redefinevg: Unable to access physical volume hdisk0

    I am looking for these logical volumes:

    /dev/lv01 -- /opt jfs --
    rw yes no
    /dev/lv02 -- /home/dns jfs --
    rw yes no

    Since I have been having trouble with my backups, I am tempted to try a
    data recovery company. However, if anybody has a way of undoing the
    damage, or suggestion as to where to turn, it would be great.

    Bengt

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