Wants to replace a hard drive which is a part of a vg vg01

[Amruth]

All,

I have 2 disks on vg vg01. Wants to replace one of the drives. The second disk has around 12 lvols..not mirrored.

As far as i know.

I need to first do vgcfgbackup the vg01

Then vgreduce the failed harddrive.

Replace the harddrive.
Do vgcfgrestore to the new drive and create the new logical volumes.

Am i correct ?

Thanks,
AM

[Patrick Wallek]

You should already have a vgcfgbackup, so I wouldn't worry about doing that. If the drive is truly dead, then the vgreduce will fail.

The steps I would do:

1) Replace bad drive with good drive

2) vgcfgrestore -n vg01 /dev/dsk/c?t?d?
(I think that syntax is correct, double check with the man page to verify)

3) vgchange -a y vg01

4) Check the drive to see if the vgcfgrestore re-created any LV's that were there already. If there weren't any, then create them and mount them.

5) Restore data

[Steven E. Protter]

I like Patricks step, except I'd do a vgexport -m /etc/lvmcong/vg01.map -s /dev/vg01

You might want to use -p instead of -s because that will not actually inactivate the volume group.

SEP

[Sundar_7]

Nope, dont follow what you have suggested :-)

if you do a vgcfgbackup and then vgreduce, it effectively overrides the conf file in /etc/lvmconf, though it keeps a copy of the old configuration.

1) Shutdown and replace the drive
2) Boot the system
3) VG may not get activated if the quorum is not present
4) vgcfgrestore -n /dev/vg01 /dev/rdsk/cXtYdZ
5) vgchange -a y /dev/vg01
6) Create the filesystems on the new disk
newfs -F vxfs -o largefiles /dev/vg01/lvolXX
7) mount the lv
8) restore from the backup


- Sundar

[Sundar_7]

If the drives are hot swappable then

1) umount all the logical volumes of the old PV (if you still can)
2) Pull off the bad disk
3) Insert the new disk
4) do ioscan and insf -e
5) vgcfgrestore
6) Create filesystems
7) mount and restore from the backup

[Geoff Wild]

Hold the phone...

You say there are 2 disks in vg01 - not mirrored - and 1 has failed?

Does the one that failed have data still on it?

If so, then you will be restoring your data....

You have 2 choices - vgcfgrestore should work....

Else just re-create the volume group from scratch...


Rgds...Geoff

[Simon Galton]

If the disk you want to replace has failed, you are likely looking a data recovery scenario.

However, assuming you simply want to replace the disk, here's a easy method.

1) Physically add the new disk to the system
2) Check that it's there: ioscan -fnC disk
3) Create the devices files (if required): insf -e
4) Initialize the disk for VG ops: pvcreate /dev/dsk/cXtYdZ
5) Add the disk to vg01: vgextend vg01 /dev/dsk/cXtYdZ
6) Move the data from the disk you want to remove to the new disk: pvmove /dev/dsk/cAtBdC /dev/dsk/cXtYdZ
7) Remove the disk you no longer want from vg01: vgreduce vg01 /dev/dsk/cAtBdC
8) Physically remove the disk you no longer want from the system

Of course, the above assumes that you can hot connect/disconnect your disks, and that you have OnlineJFS (I think pvmove is part of the optional OnlineJFS package -- if you don't have it, you don't know what you're missing!).

Good Luck!

Simon

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

You would have a config file for VG. Just keep a backup of it on safer side.

do a vgreduce using -A n option

Hope you have already though of backing up VG.

for lv in lv1 lv2 lv3 .......
do lvremove -A n $lv
vgreduce -A n vg_name pv_path
vgchange -a n vg_name

Take the system down here. Replace the disk.

Take the system up. VG wont activate it doesnt have quorum

vgcfgrestore -n /dev/vg01 raw_dev_path

and carry on the steps ahead.

Thanks
Prashant