Hi,

I am trying to swap a hard disk from one AIX PowerPC to another but am
having trouble reading it on the new PC. I may have also created a new
logocal volume inadvertantly and can't seem to get at the data on the
disk.

Any ideas on how to get at the original data from the disk?

Thanks in advance.

RichM

rmorley@signal.QinetiQ.com (RichM) wrote in message news:<1023aaf8.0404300708.5f6c5c0f@posting.google. com>...
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to swap a hard disk from one AIX PowerPC to another but am
> having trouble reading it on the new PC. I may have also created a new
> logocal volume inadvertantly and can't seem to get at the data on the
> disk.
>
> Any ideas on how to get at the original data from the disk?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> RichM

Use the importvg command.

>> I may have also created a new
> > logocal volume inadvertantly and can't seem to get at the data on the
> > disk.
Whoops, this means that you would have had to create a Volume Group
and Vary it on to create the Logical Volume on the disk. You may be
in trouble now, because the VGDA on the disk has been overwritten with
a blank one. If you had not created the VG then you would have been
able to importvg as Steve has stated above. You may be able to get
the data via one of those expensive disk data recovery companies, but
as for doing it with LVM you are shooting in the dark.

Good luck, and next time
varyoffvg
exportvg
rmdev -dl hdis#

move to the new box, power on
cfgmgr
importvg


check out the man pages etc... there maybe a howto on the aix doc site
to do this...
http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pser...base/index.htm

HTH
Mark Taylor