topic vgimport in Operating System - HP-UX

vgimport

fizan — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:37:16 GMT

# vgimport -m vgp4today.map -N -v -s /dev/vgxp4
Beginning the import process on Volume Group "/dev/vgp4".
Bad or no VGID in mapfile vgxp4today.map.

Thanks

Re: vgimport

fizan — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:46:01 GMT

cat vgp4today.map
1 lvol1
2 lvol2
3 lvol3
4 lvol4
5 lvol5
6 lvol6
7 lvol7
8 lvol8
9 lvol9
10 lvol10
11 lvol11
12 lvol12
13 lvol13
14 lvol14

Re: vgimport

Shrikant Lavhate — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:18:10 GMT

Check :

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/LVM-and-VxVM/scripting-vgimport-commands-bad-results/m-p/2833089#M11875

Re: vgimport

ManojK_1 — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:55:34 GMT

Hi,

The issue is because you were not given -s option while taking the vg backup using vgexport.

No wyou can restore this vg by the following steps.

mv /etc/lvmtab /tmp/lvmtab
vgscan -v

Manoj K

Re: vgimport

fizan — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 06:23:39 GMT

finally got the solution with shrikanth's link posted.

Thanks.