topic Re: vgexport and vgimport in Operating System - HP-UX

vgexport and vgimport

newunix — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:27:19 GMT

why vgexport and vgimport are used.

can i have with an example

Re: vgexport and vgimport

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:38:33 GMT

Hi:

You use 'vgexport' and 'vgimport' to (1) move LVM volume groups from one server to another; (2) to rename a volume group; (3) to copy volume group information from one server to another in a cluster (e.g. under Serviceguard); and (4) to remove a volume group from a server ('vgexport' without any subsequent 'vgimport').

The manpages for each command provide examples and more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: vgexport and vgimport

srm_2 — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:33:08 GMT

also we use vgexport to take configuration backup of a vg (in the form of a map file), so that in the event of a failure we can recreate the vg from that backup.

Re: vgexport and vgimport

SoorajCleris — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:37:02 GMT

Hi Rahman,

"also we use vgexport to take configuration backup of a vg (in the form of a map file), so that in the event of a failure we can recreate the vg from that backup"

I am confused. Could you please explain it ?
Regards,
Sooraj

Re: vgexport and vgimport

SoorajCleris — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:43:24 GMT

Hi,

(11.31)

/usr/sbin/vgexport [-m mapfile] [-p] [-v] [-f outfile] vg_name

Using the format of the above command line the vgexport command can be used to remove a volume group from the system.
The volume group will be removed without modifying the logical volume information found on the physical volumes.

The volume group identified by vg_name is removed from the /etc/lvmtab
or /etc/lvmtab_p file, and the associated device files including the
vg_name directory and group file are removed from the system.

The volume group information and data is untouched on the physical volume.These disks can be imported to another system with the
vgimport command

/usr/sbin/vgexport -m mapfile -s [-p] [-v] vg_name

Using the format of the above command line,
vgexport command generates a mapfile that can be copied to other
systems that are part of a high availability cluster (use the -p
option if you do not want to remove the volume group from the system
the command is being run from) and the vgimport command (see
vgimport(1M)) can be used to recreate the volume group. See also
vgchange(1M). The mapfile contains a description of the volume group
and its associated logical volume(s) (if any). The logical volume
information found on the physical volumes is not modified.

Regards,
Sooraj

Re: vgexport and vgimport

srm_2 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:53:23 GMT

Hi Sooraj,

i was talking about the second one you mentioned:
/usr/sbin/vgexport -p -v -s -m mapfile vg_name

using this, we get the mapfile and the vg will not be removed from system.

If later on, while working on this vg, if it is removed using vgexport or like that, then using the existing mapfile we can regenerate the vg by vgimport:
/usr/sbin/vgimport -v -s -m mapfile vg_name

Re: vgexport and vgimport

SoorajCleris — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:10:04 GMT

Hi

Thank you verymuch for the reply.

==>to take configuration backup of a vg (in the form of a map file),

The command used for this is vgcfgbackup.

vgimport will take the configuration from disks only , not for the mapfile.

in case of vgexport, map file is only used to save the "VGID" so that it can search for the disks which is having same VGID. it saves the name of the LV also.

you can import a VG with data without help of any mapfile.. all you need is disks.

Regards,
Sooraj

Re: vgexport and vgimport

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:50:18 GMT

http://hvelasco.admin.pagesperso-orange.fr/LVM%20HP-UX/root.htm

For More Detail:
http://docstore.mik.ua/manuals/hp-ux/en/5992-4589/

Re: vgexport and vgimport

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:59:12 GMT

for second one this is more official link:
http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02023734/c02023734.pdf

Re: vgexport and vgimport

SoorajCleris — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:12:32 GMT

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28