How to manually -re-attach AIX lv's to a mirror?


 
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Old 01-29-2019
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Originally Posted by mrmurdock
IBM did a vgda map of hdisk1 with dd.
There is a little-known tool called readvgda which does what its name suggests - read the VGDA and print its content out to screen. I use it regularly when working on (to me) unknown systems when i need to find out about the VG type (classic, big or scalable) because otherwise there is no direct way to get that information elsewhere. You can use it for any other purposes too, though. The format is:

Code:
readvgda hdiskN [ | more]

where hdiskN is any hdisk device in the VG. Here is a longer article about it but knowing what to search for you find many others too.

The VGDA is stored in (at least) two different locations of the disk and if one is broken you may still read the other one and use that. You can easily do that with dd so you won't need IBM to do that for you. Of course this is a potentially risky operation so my suggestion is to test it first on a throwaway system/disk to get acquainted.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 
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volreattach(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    volreattach(8)

NAME
volreattach - Reattaches disk drives that have once again become accessible SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/volreattach [-rb] [accessname...] /usr/sbin/volreattach -c accessname OPTIONS
The volreattach utility has the following options: Calls the volrecover utility to attempt to recover stale plexes of any volumes on the failed disk. Performs the reattach operation in the background. Checks whether a reattach is possible. No operation is performed, but the name of the disk group and disk media name at which the disk can be reattached is displayed. DESCRIPTION
The volreattach utility attempts to reattach disks using the same disk group and media names they had before detachment. This operation may be necessary if a disk has a transient failure, or if some disk drivers are unloaded or unloadable when the Logical Storage Manager is started, causing disks to enter the failed state. If the problem is fixed, the volreattach command can be used to reattach the disks without plexes being flagged as stale, as long as the reattach happens before any volumes on the disk are started. The volreattach command is called from the voldiskadm menus as part of disk recovery. The volreattach utility tries to find a disk with a disk group and disk ID matching that of the disk(s) being reattached. If the matching disk is found, the reattach operation may still fail if the original cause (or some other cause) for the disk failure still exists. EXIT CODES
A zero exit status is returned if it is possible to perform a reattach. Otherwise, non-zero is returned. SEE ALSO
volintro(8), voldiskadm(8), volrecover(8) volreattach(8)