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From: Patrick Caulfield <pcaulfie@redhat.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] recreate metadata of an PV possible if vda-backup present?
Date: Thu Jan 22 09:10:02 2004	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040122140727.GA992@tykepenguin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <108049294.20040121235827@gmx.de>

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:58:27PM +0100, Malte Woelky wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> 
> I had an VG called 'vg01' which contained the only PV  /dev/hdc
> 
> My problem happened during a system upgrade, where I could have
> removed the VG from the system or something else happened...
> 
> I do have an VDA backup /root/lvmconf/vg01.conf (attatched to this
> mail)
> 
> Is ist possible to recrate or restore the PV metadata? I believe that
> the data stored on this PV may be still there ...I hope so.
> 
> I searched the last two months for an sollution, but found nothing
> using google, diverse mailing list archives, heise-forum, etc ...
> 
> does someone on this list have any tip?
> 
> I would be very, very happy if someone could post some hints to try...
> 

# pvcreate /dev/hdc
# vgcfgrestore -n vg01 /dev/hdc
# vgscan

should restore the VG for you.


-- 

patrick

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-22  9:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-22  8:53 [linux-lvm] recreate metadata of an PV possible if vda-backup present? Malte Woelky
2004-01-22  9:10 ` Patrick Caulfield [this message]
2004-01-22 11:09   ` Re[2]: " Malte Woelky
2004-01-22 11:20     ` Patrick Caulfield

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