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Operating Systems AIX can't vary on vg - no good copies of the descriptor area Post 302355439 by need2bageek on Tuesday 22nd of September 2009 05:43:28 PM
Old 09-22-2009
can't vary on vg - no good copies of the descriptor area

Hi everyone,

I just restored an AIX 6.1 LPAR from one JS12 blade to another. I've done this several times before without issues. But this time, the restore completed successfully, all file systems are mounted, I can even start WebSphere and all the apps. However, when I try to do lsvg <volumegroup> it says:
"Volume group must be varied on; use varyonvg command."

Then I try varyonvg <volumegroup> and it says:
0516-013 varyonvg: The volume group cannot be varied on because
there are no good copies of the descriptor area.

So apparently the descriptor area is missing. I don't know what this means. When I did the restore, the only thing different was the size of the LUNs in the SAN. So, there is more disk on the partition I restored to. Other than that, everything's the same.

Does anyone have any ideas?? Smilie
 

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VGCFGRESTORE(8)                                               System Manager's Manual                                              VGCFGRESTORE(8)

NAME
vgcfgrestore - restore volume group descriptor area SYNOPSIS
vgcfgrestore [-d|--debug] [-f|--file filename] [-l[l]|--list] [-h|--help] [-M|--Metadatatype1|2] [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] VolumeGroupName DESCRIPTION
vgcfgrestore allows you to restore the metadata of VolumeGroupName from a text backup file produced by vgcfgbackup. You can specify a backup file with --file. If no backup file is specified, the most recent one is used. Use --list for a list of the available backup and archive files of VolumeGroupName. OPTIONS
-l | --list -- List files pertaining to VolumeGroupName List metadata backup and archive files pertaining to VolumeGroupName. May be used with the -f option. Does not restore Vol- umeGroupName. -f | --file filename -- Name of LVM metadata backup file Specifies a metadata backup or archive file to be used for restoring VolumeGroupName. Often this file has been created with vgcfg- backup. See lvm for common options. REPLACING PHYSICAL VOLUMES
vgdisplay --partial --verbose will show you the UUIDs and sizes of any PVs that are no longer present. If a PV in the VG is lost and you wish to substitute another of the same size, use pvcreate --restorefile filename --uuid uuid (plus additional arguments as appropriate) to initialise it with the same UUID as the missing PV. Repeat for all other missing PVs in the VG. Then use vgcfgrestore --file filename to restore the volume group's metadata. SEE ALSO
lvm(8), vgcreate(8) Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.95(2) (2012-03-06) VGCFGRESTORE(8)
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