Accidently VXVM disk formatted with pvcreate -f command

[Mohammed.Muneer]

Dear All
Accidently VXVM disk is formatted with pvcreate -f command and i knew after next boot the disk will be in error, is there any way to recover before restart.
Pls advice ASAP

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Once you give pvcreate -f everything will wash out from disk, to get back data from this type of case may some 3rd party tools will work.

If it's an important data and you donâ  t have backup copy of its, then better contact those persons who are expert to get data from damage disks and all

[Mohammed.Muneer]

There is no way in hpux to retain back the disk header ? & avoid data lose. Ay expert suggestion.

[Shardha]

Dear Muneer,

Never use pvcreate -f command, in first go, run only pvcreate command, this practice will will avoid this type of mistakes.

Shardha

[Kapil Jha]

I am not sure why have you opened a new thread for the same problem,
I did restore the header yesterday (although in SUN) successfully.
Do you have sm directory
ls -lrt /etc/vx/cbr/bk/

What is VxVM version.

BR,
Kapil+

[Kapil Jha]

And yes don play around with vxvm untill you are very sure of what you doing.
and DO NOT RUN
#vxdctl enable command else you would get IO error on your volume and everything would be gone.

As suggested earlier stop application (only apps) take full backup create dg again and restore.
Else follow the procedure given earlier (its just 30mnt task)

BR,
Kapil+

[Mohammed.Muneer]

Hi kapil , i have not opened the new thread , its shardha who opened this. Anyways prepared the action plan & will be executed. thanks for replying. you can close the thread.

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

>>>>you can close the thread.

FYI -> you are the author of thread,
so I d'not see your point in asking others to close your thread,

except Forum Adminstrator or MR.Mohammed.Muneer
can close thread