Re: Accidentially Removed a Volume Group

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Date:         Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:52:48 -0700
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

Mat and Bill,

Other SCSI seemes to have have worked for a long time.

I intended to export the drives, and hit the wrong
command.

Bengt

--- Bill Verzal <BVerzal@KOMATSUNA.COM> wrote:
> Actually, we see that alot on our systems because we
> buy most of our stuff
> used with OEM drives in them :(
>
> I have that on all of my S80 internal drives.
>
> BV
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> 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
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [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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