Recovering a datavg to a different system

[George221]

I'm new to AIX and are trying to recover a datavg to a different system. I have AIX 5.3 running as a guest on several i5 OS partitions. I'm able to save and restore a virtual drive to another partition but the problem I'm running into is trying to import the new volume group onto a system that has the same file systems layout (ie: both volume groups have the same file stems: /oracle, /oradat01, oradat02, etc....). How do I import this new VG and gain access to the data without it conflicting with the current production datavg?. I understand VG names need to be unique and when importing the VG I have the option to renaming it but how about the rest?. LV?. mounts? /dev/oracle?.
Your help is greatly appreciated.

 

[hirschaj]

You can use the recreatevg command on the disk after it has been cfgmgr'd into the new system. This command will rename the vg, lv's, and fs's. Check out the man page for full information on how to use it.


Jim Hirschauer

http://www.aixexpert.com

 

[George221]

That's works!. Thanks a bunch. So if I understand this correctly, the /dev/lv name is just an address of the data on disk?.