We shutdown a node in the DR cluster for maintenance but when bring the node back up it did not start up so used the below command and now its stuck in recovering.
/opt/vertica/bin/admintools -t restart_node -d drdata --hosts x.x.x.x --force
Release : 3.x
Component : IM Data Storage
If a transaction is in queue or in progress when the node is shut down, the LGE (Last Good Epoch) may not match the other nodes when the down node restarts.
This is working as designed.
The whole point of having 3 or more nodes in the vertica cluster is to allow k-safety.
This process will recover or rebuild a node that was down when that node restarts.