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Jbert
Level 4
14 years ago

vxconfigbackup warning

Whenever I try to backup the configuration, warning is shown as below. Also when i try to restore it, the operation fails.

/etc/vx/bin/vxconfigbackup -l /opt/configbackup
Start backing up diskgroup abcdg to /opt/configbackup/abcdg.1294657147.185.sys1_01 ...
VxVM vxconfigbackup WARNINIG V-5-2-3608 On disk diskgroup configuration for diskgroup abcdg is invalid, please check this dg
VxVM  NOTICE V-5-2-3100 Backup complete for diskgroup: abcdg

 

ls /opt/configbackup:

abcdg.1294657147.185.sys1_01


 

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  • Gaurav_S's avatar
    Gaurav_S
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    14 years ago

    Hello,

    Well to my understanding you have no choice but to re-build the private regions on the disk... Since the DG is up at the moment (& just config backup failing) .. its up to you if you want to rebuild it at this stage or later stage as it will require an outage.

    Once the DG is deported, I am not very confident that diskgroup will be imported successfully again without re-constructing the private region. Since you have already ran vxdg flush that means kernel copy is flushed to ondisk copy & even that is not giving a readable private region.

    For how to rebuild the diskgroup, you can get idea from this post:

    https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/restore-dg

     

    Article http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH22298

    is also helpful to understand how will vxdisksetup command needs to be used.

     

    Gaurav