From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx03.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.7]) by int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o51DstkL019424 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:54:55 -0400 Received: from ps536.phatservers.com (ps536.phatservers.com [216.17.105.202]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o51DsjUW003901 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:54:45 -0400 Received: from r74-192-24-94.bcstcmta01.clsttx.tl.dh.suddenlink.net ([74.192.24.94] helo=raydesk1.bettercgi.com) by ps536.phatservers.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1OJRvK-00012C-2X for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 06:54:34 -0700 Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:54:29 -0500 From: Ray Morris References: In-Reply-To: (from romeo.theriault@maine.edu on Tue Jun 1 08:27:22 2010) Message-Id: <1275400469.25384.0@raydesk1.bettercgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Is it possible to bypass LVM and mount contained partition directly? Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; delsp="Yes"; format="Flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development > I'll only be able to have one restore at a time happening, > since almost all our linux vm's have the same named VG's > and LV's Fedora used to by default name the VG for every machine volgroup001 or something like that. They then changed to naming it after the machine, I believe. You are discovering one of the reasons why having them all named the same is a bad idea. When a SAN is involved, one can of course envision several other problems limits on future usage. Your best course of action may be to eliminate the root cause and rename the source VGs. -- Ray Morris support@bettercgi.com Strongbox - The next generation in site security: http://www.bettercgi.com/strongbox/ Throttlebox - Intelligent Bandwidth Control http://www.bettercgi.com/throttlebox/ Strongbox / Throttlebox affiliate program: http://www.bettercgi.com/affiliates/user/register.php On 06/01/2010 08:27:22 AM, Romeo Theriault wrote: > Hi, > > > �Can you restore these backups to another system? �Such as one > designated to do this job? > > Yes, I've thought about this a bit too. The problem that I see with > this is that I'll only be able to have one restore at a time > happening, since almost all our linux vm's have the same named VG's > and LV's and they are on read-only media so I wouldn't be able to > rename them.... > > I've going to have to keeping thinking about this one. > > Thanks for the pointers. > > Romeo > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > >