Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi All,

I have experienced this error in my AIX server for flashcopy :-->

0516-1322 recreatevg: Physical volumes specified on the command line are not enough
to recreate the volume group.

Previously there was no problem but after I allocate a new LUN into the system and insert into another volume group then the problem come in.

Please advise. Thanks!

Originally posted by: tony.evans

At a guess, the script recreating your VG from the flash copy isn't specifying enough LUNs

Originally posted by: sdpeck

Replying to this old thread because I ran into the same issue.

When you add LUNs to the volume group, they will all need a corresponding copy (flashcopy, BCV, etc.) When you run the recreatevg command you need to specify all of the LUNs in the original vg.

An alternative is, if you are sure that you have empty LUNs, you can use the -f option on recreatevg and then you don't have to list the empty LUNs in the command.

Originally posted by: derechas

This situation always happen when your original volume proup (In the source machine) have more than one disk and you are only performing the flash Copy for one volume who correspond only to one physical volume in the original machine.  So you have to copy allthe volumes who correspong to this volume group before perform the recreatevg command.