Troubleshooting snapshot, clone and restore issues
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The PVIDs of both of my volumes are the same on my AIX operating system. How do I resolve this issue?
Symptoms: When you clone and attach a volume to the same PVM as the PVM containing the original volume, the PVIDs of both volumes are found to be the same on your AIX operating system.
Causes: There's a problem with the underlying technology that is supporting the clone feature.
Resolve: To resolve this issue, enter the following commands:
chdev -a pv=clear -l hdisk2
recreatevg -y copyvg hdisk2
mount /fs/<original-mount-point>
In this example, hdisk2
refers to the cloned volume name and copyvg
is the name to be given to the newly created volume group. The recreatevg
command creates a new file system with the same name as the
original but in the /fs
path. For more information, see "Section B" under Possible Cause and Solution 2: The Disks Are Copies of Each Other.