From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] restoring lvm cinfiguration
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:02:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010822090215.B7109@sistina.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010821145329.A763@sky.net>; from U.Wiederhold@gmx.net on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:53:29PM +0200
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:53:29PM +0200, Ulrich Wiederhold wrote:
> Hi,
> * Lars Grobe <grobe@gmx.net> [010821 13:23]:
> > My question is concerning the naming conventions of the files. So is vg01
> > the name of your vg?
> Yes.
>
> > I did a vgcfgrestore -l with the different files in /etc/lvmconf, and while
> > the <vgname>.conf gives me the current config (that is after resize, and I
> > want to get the config before resizing), I have a file <vgname>.conf.1.old that
> > seams to hold the data before resizing.
> >
> > So I would like where lvm will store the data if I resize a lv - is .conf
> > the new (current after resizing) and .conf.1.old the old (before resizing)
> > configuration? So if I want to undo resizing, should I restore from .conf.1.old?
>
> I think you should use .conf.1.old then. The newest file is .conf, the
> oldest one .conf.9.old (at my system, "ls -l" shows you this).
> You can use the -t option to test the command.
Yes, that's correct.
You can even have deaper backup histories setting the environment variable
LVM_VG_MAX_BACKUPS to a higher value than 9 (max is 999).
>
> Uli
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-22 7:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-21 10:40 [linux-lvm] restoring lvm cinfiguration Lars Grobe
2001-08-21 10:53 ` Ulrich Wiederhold
2001-08-21 11:23 ` Lars Grobe
2001-08-21 12:53 ` Ulrich Wiederhold
2001-08-22 7:02 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen [this message]
2001-08-22 16:39 ` Lars O. Grobe
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