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From: Jaap Winius <jwinius@umrk.nl>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can this array be recovered?
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:06:39 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kbcmeu$ste$3@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: kbcibm$ste$2@ger.gmane.org

On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:56:38 +0000, Jaap Winius wrote:

> # pvscan -u
>   Incorrect metadata area header checksum PV /dev/md2 with UUID
>   0iEU34-XNSd-vNpu-G3uW-2F1v-wEy9-Bw199N VG
> volgrp3         lvm2 [931.51 GiB / 11.51 GiB free]
>   PV /dev/md0 with UUID Lb3KzG-9tZM-5MbQ-1DUa-5ErW-DYf1-NqvMJW VG
> volgrp1         lvm2 [697.70 GiB / 5.44 GiB free]
>   PV /dev/md1 with UUID uWDdXr-8fRw-aJDG-SzdQ-
> yeIl-6dsv-28vJYs                    lvm2 [697.70 GiB]
>   Total: 3 [2.27 TiB] / in use: 2 [1.59 TiB] / in no VG: 1 [697.70 GiB]
> 
> That last UUID is still associated with a bunch of volgrp2 objects in my
> current LVM configuration (the old LVM volume on /dev/md1), even though
> pvscan currently doesn't recognize it as such.

All that was needed at this point involved some LVM recovery procedures. 
I did it like this:

# pvcreate --uuid uWDdXr-8fRw-aJDG-SzdQ-yeIl-6dsv-28vJYs --restorefile /
etc/lvm/archive/volgrp2_00007.vg /dev/md1
  Incorrect metadata area header checksum
  Incorrect metadata area header checksum
  Incorrect metadata area header checksum
  Incorrect metadata area header checksum
  Incorrect metadata area header checksum
  Physical volume "/dev/md1" successfully created

This restored my original LVM physical volume. However, the original 
volume group was missing. To fix that I created one with the same name on 
that same physical device:

# vgcreate -v volgrp2 /dev/md1
    Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
    Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
    Adding physical volume '/dev/md1' to volume group 'volgrp2'
    Archiving volume group "volgrp2" metadata (seqno 0).
    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/volgrp2" (seqno 1).
  Volume group "volgrp2" successfully created

Okay, but at this point the problem was that my logical volumes had yet 
to be restored

# vgcfgrestore -f /u21/backup/bitis/etc/2012-12-24@01:02:12/lvm/backup/
volgrp2 volgrp2
  Restored volume group volgrp2

This restored the volume group descriptor area from an older automatic  
backup file for this volume group. It worked: my old vicepb volume was 
back! Still, I couldn't mount it until I did this:

~# vgchange -ay
  3 logical volume(s) in volume group "volgrp3" now active
  1 logical volume(s) in volume group "volgrp2" now active
  6 logical volume(s) in volume group "volgrp1" now active

Finally, this allowed me to mount my volume and make all my data 
available once again. 

Thanks Phil!

Chritmas cheers,

Jaap


      reply	other threads:[~2012-12-25 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-25  4:14 Can this array be recovered? Jaap Winius
2012-12-25  6:05 ` Phil Turmel
2012-12-25 15:24   ` Jaap Winius
2012-12-25 15:56     ` Jaap Winius
2012-12-25 17:06       ` Jaap Winius [this message]

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