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March 10th, 2008 16:00
time finder clone on AIX
Hello, I am trying to clone an AIX volume group for the first time. The volume group is made out of 3 devices (DEV001, DEV002, DEV003). I'm trying to clone them to the target devices DEV004, DEV005, DEV006 on the secondary host. I have created the device group below -
root@wfscr04:/prod/oe/b/db#symclone -g oebdg query
Device Group (DG) Name: oebdg
DG's Type : REGULAR
DG's Symmetrix ID : 000187461303
Source Device Target Device State Copy
--------------------------------- ---------------------------- ------------ ----
Protected Modified Modified
Logical Sym Tracks Tracks Logical Sym tracks CGDP SRC <=> TGT (%)
--------------------------------- ---------------------------- ------------ ----
DEV001 0101 2883599 0 DEV004 06DD 0 .X.. CopyOnAccess 0
DEV002 0227 2883598 0 DEV005 06ED 0 .X.. CopyOnAccess 0
DEV003 0237 2883598 0 DEV006 06FD 0 .X.. CopyOnAccess 0
Total --------
Track(s) 8650795
MB(s) 270337
I have run the following commands on the primary host -
symclone create DEV001 sym ld DEV004
symclone create DEV002 sym ld DEV005
symclone create DEV003 sym ld DEV006
symclone activate DEV001 sym ld DEV004
symclone activate DEV002 sym ld DEV005
symclone activate DEV003 sym ld DEV006
I then went to the secondary host and ran -
cfgmgr
importvg -y b_db10vg hdiskpower10
The import fails with the following message -
root@wfscr12:/#importvg -y b_db10vg hdiskpower10
0516-002 lqueryvg: The volume group version is incompatible with this level
of the operating system and cannot be activated.
I'm not sure why the error. Should I have run an exportvg on the source server before trying to importvg on the target server? Both servers are running AIX 5.2 ml 3.
root@wfscr04:/prod/oe/b/db#symclone -g oebdg query
Device Group (DG) Name: oebdg
DG's Type : REGULAR
DG's Symmetrix ID : 000187461303
Source Device Target Device State Copy
--------------------------------- ---------------------------- ------------ ----
Protected Modified Modified
Logical Sym Tracks Tracks Logical Sym tracks CGDP SRC <=> TGT (%)
--------------------------------- ---------------------------- ------------ ----
DEV001 0101 2883599 0 DEV004 06DD 0 .X.. CopyOnAccess 0
DEV002 0227 2883598 0 DEV005 06ED 0 .X.. CopyOnAccess 0
DEV003 0237 2883598 0 DEV006 06FD 0 .X.. CopyOnAccess 0
Total --------
Track(s) 8650795
MB(s) 270337
I have run the following commands on the primary host -
symclone create DEV001 sym ld DEV004
symclone create DEV002 sym ld DEV005
symclone create DEV003 sym ld DEV006
symclone activate DEV001 sym ld DEV004
symclone activate DEV002 sym ld DEV005
symclone activate DEV003 sym ld DEV006
I then went to the secondary host and ran -
cfgmgr
importvg -y b_db10vg hdiskpower10
The import fails with the following message -
root@wfscr12:/#importvg -y b_db10vg hdiskpower10
0516-002 lqueryvg: The volume group version is incompatible with this level
of the operating system and cannot be activated.
I'm not sure why the error. Should I have run an exportvg on the source server before trying to importvg on the target server? Both servers are running AIX 5.2 ml 3.
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brad12341
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March 14th, 2008 09:00
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March 14th, 2008 09:00
please give credits to people who took the time to assist you
Thanks
brad12341
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March 14th, 2008 10:00
Brad
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January 26th, 2014 23:00
Hello bodnarg.
He would use a recreatevg only if he's importing the VGs on the cloned disks, on the same host that has the source volumes, to avoid a PVID conflict. A recreatevg would rename the filesystems on the cloned disk and change the PVIDs for the cloned volumes so that both, the source and the target filesystems can be worked upon, simultaneously.
thanks.