I finally got it working again. My initial attempts to restore didn't work, but after going back to the second backup, it did restore and was able to find the VG.
I really appreciate everyone's responses. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:33 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: LVM problem. Lost VG info Were you able to verify that the device is online? If lscss is unavailable, go to the dev directory: Determine the device number (say 204) either from an lsdasd or cat /proc/dasd/devices cd /sys/bus/ccw/drivers/dasd-eckd/0.0.0204 cat online . . . .if value zero (offline), then echo 1 > online James Chaplin Systems Programmer, MVS, zVM & zLinux Base Technologies, Inc (703) 921-6220 -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Walters, Gene P Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:15 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: LVM problem. Lost VG info This is on sles8, so I don't have the lscss command, but when I try the vgchange -ay it cant find any volume groups. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Szefler Jakub Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:05 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: LVM problem. Lost VG info Have you all disks online ? Issue command : lscss and check it. After then you can try: vgscan vgchange -ay Best regards, Jakub Szefler Administrator zOS/zVM -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Walters, Gene P Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 2:58 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: LVM problem. Lost VG info I'm already having a bad day. I took one of our Linux Instances down to add more disk space to it. Everything went fine. I used Yast2 to add the new volumes to the VG. Now when I IPL, it cant find the volume group. I ran a PVSCAN, and it shows all my physical volumes are associated to an unknown VG. I've looked at several commands, but I guess I just don't understand. Hopefully my data is not lost. Is there a way to rebuild the VG? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
