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Script to recreate a volume group with new PVIDs

Posted by steve on 02 Jun 2012 in Scripts and One Liners

#!/usr/bin/ksh
# Script to re-create volume groups from flash copies with new PVID's.

typeset -Z2 COUNT=1
while lspv | grep -e hdisk -e vpath | grep None | head -1 | grep -q None
do
    DISK=$( lspv | grep -e hdisk -e vpath | grep None | head -1 )
    ALL_PVIDS=$( lqueryvg -Pp ${DISK} | awk '{ print $1 }' )
    TEST=$( print ${ALL_PVIDS} | sed 's; ; -e ;g' )
    ALL_DISKS=$( lspv | grep -e ${TEST} | awk '{ print $1 }' )

    recreatevg -L / -Y NA -y new${COUNT}vg ${ALL_DISKS}
    (( COUNT = COUNT + 1 ))
done

Tags: AIXflash copyrecreatevg

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