NOTE: vgdisplay -v unsuccessful in make_recovery

[Steve Glubka]

Hi - I am getting the following message showing up in a make_recovery -A command:

Option -A specified. Entire Core Volume
Group/disk will be backed up.


NOTE: vgdisplay -v unsuccessful

The above "NOTE:" message appears 24 times, followed by:

***************************************
HP-UX System Recovery
Going to create the tape.
System Recovery Tape successfully created.

The exit code is a zero ($?). I can use the vgdisplay -v command on the server (N-4000 HP-UX 11). (1) Any ideas why the "NOTE" message appears and (2) Does this affect my ability to recover?

Thanx,

[Cheryl Griffin]

Steve,
What volume groups are you backing up? vg00 only?

When you ran the vgdisplay -v, did you see anything unusual like:
Cur LV 7
Open LV 8

What version of Ignite are you using?

[Sarah Plunkett]

Hi Steve,

Can you run vgdisplay -v on all your volume groups ? If you are running a version of Ignite < 2.1 then you may run into problems with the number of vgs that are on your system.

Before 2.1, we were unable to deal with > 9 volume groups on a system.

Check the config.recover for details of what it has been backed up. At the end of the /var/opt/ignite/config.recover, you should see the following:

post_config_cmd="

followed by alot of vgimport,vgchange,vgcfgbackup commands for each of your vgs. They must be there otherwise you won't be able to restore your vg information on recovery.

[Steve Glubka]

I am running B.2.3.205 of Ignite (at least that's what I see in SAM).

If I run a vgdisplay -v on all of the devices listed in /dev/vg** I get an error on /dev/vg09 indicating it is not activated. This appears to be an old entry out there that is not used. If I look in sam, this does not show up as a volume group.

[Deshpande Prashant]

Hi Steve
Looks like you have an unactivated volume group on your system, If this is not in use and free, you may want to remove it from system to get rid of the error message you are receiving in make recovery.
Thanks
Prashant