Seems to me that the config file under /sapdb/SID/sapdata/config is corrupt. I can see the errors below looping even before I added some data files yesterday
2013-07-29 15:17:58 12669 ERR -24580 DBMSrv ERR_COMMAND_FAILED: Command 'param_getvolume' has ended and failed with return code -24979.
12669 ERR -24999 DBMSrv ERR_ERR: Common error
...i can see errors from 29th July at 15:00 hours and I added the data file at 19:46 yesterday so i need to restore a config file version thats before 15:00 hours time stamp. I can see one file which is a copy made a week ago. I did not make any config changes in the last couple of weeks so i can restore this file.
Now even if i restore the config file from before, it wont have the newly created data files. I have to add them manually. Any thoughts how i can restore old config file and add the newly created volumes manually in a consistent manner ? Has any one done this before. Is this a recommended approach given my situation.
Regards
Kalyan