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From: "Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@gmail.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Changing the UUID of a VG and a LV
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:16:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <170fa0d20611160816o5ba38734h458141e727b309e5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C43D74B62BA19A45ADD74C1AB7AEE54202B7B184@nt-gws2.gws-muenster.de>

On 11/16/06, Steverding, Kai <Kai.Steverding@gws.ms> wrote:
> Hi !
> I have the following problem :
>
> For backup purposes, i take SAN-Snapshot Copies of my Linux machine. I
> deploy my new machines from those copies, too. This has the effect, that a
> clone of a machine has the exact same disk the original has including PV
> UUID, VG name, VG UUID, LV name and lv uuid. I found out that i can change
> the PV UUID with pvchange -u and the VG name with vgrename , but is there a
> way to change the UUID's of the VG and the LV's ? I need it, because i mount
> all those snapshots on a backup-server and this doesn't work because of the
> same UUIDs.

Look for "Hardware snapshots and LVM2?" and "Altering a Physical
Volume's UUID" in the list archives.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-11-16 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-16  8:57 [linux-lvm] Changing the UUID of a VG and a LV Steverding, Kai
2006-11-16 16:16 ` Mike Snitzer [this message]

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