From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3EAD8E6A.5020608@stella.at> From: Kai Iskratsch MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] trying to restore data after Harddisk breakdown References: <3EABA9DC.2050507@stella.at> <20030427152621.A13215@uk.sistina.com> In-Reply-To: <20030427152621.A13215@uk.sistina.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon Apr 28 15:26:01 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com >>----------------------------------------------- >>first this says that the 120GB disk is my PV0 and the 80 GB is my PV1, >>second it says that my 2 working LVs are entirely on the 120 GB >> >> >Yes, that's what the metadata says. > >And VIDEO was split between all three disks. > > > >>and I only need to add the new PV and replace all the Missing >>Segments by one on the new PV? >> >> > >If you want to try to salvage something from VIDEO, yes. > > thats what i wanted to try. so i created a new pv on the new disk, then I edited the backupfile so that it has one segment on the new harddisk in it instead of the missing parts. and then i tried to run vgcfgrestore first with the -t option to see if the backupfile is correct , and then without (since the VG is a old 1.0x VG i used the -M 1 option) in both ways i got this error message Cannot change metadata for partial volume group Data Restore failed how can I restore the metadata to the new disk? best regards Kai