Multipathed disk showing error message: Checksum error

Running pvs shows the error message Checksum error and the disk is not part of a volume group

root@linux:~ # pvs | grep NP0_trans_disk_002
/dev/mapper/NP0_trans_disk_002: Checksum error
Couldn’t read volume group metadata.
/dev/mapper/NP0_trans_disk_002: Checksum error
Couldn’t read volume group metadata.
/dev/mapper/NP0_trans_disk_002: Checksum error
Couldn’t read volume group metadata.
/dev/mapper/NP0_trans_disk_002 lvm2 — 50.00g 50.00g

Check all the files inside directory /etc/lvm/backup if there is a file containing the disk that is showing Checksum error

root@linux:~ # cd /etc/lvm/backup
root@linux:~ # grep NP0_trans_disk_002 *
vgNP0trans: device = “/dev/mapper/NP0_trans_disk_002” # Hint only

Restore the volume group configuration

root@linux:~ # vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvm/backup/vgNP0trans vgNP0trans
/dev/mapper/NP0_trans_disk_002: Checksum error
Couldn’t read volume group metadata.
Restored volume group vgNP0trans

The physical volume starts starts showing volume group information

root@linux:~ # pvs | grep NP0_trans_disk_002
/dev/mapper/NP0_trans_disk_002 vgNP0trans lvm2 a– 46.02g 8.00m

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