From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j1BKW6O17131 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:32:06 -0500 Received: from kopparhuset.net (tp2internet.comun.org [212.75.75.26] (may be forged)) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1BKVxg0004871 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:32:00 -0500 Message-ID: <420D1635.7020503@webhackande.se> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:31:49 +0100 From: Rickard Olsson MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] waah waah - disaster recovery References: <0B834CEE3453504B82AB821DFB7047C1FF0487@enyc11p32003.corpny.csfb.com> In-Reply-To: <0B834CEE3453504B82AB821DFB7047C1FF0487@enyc11p32003.corpny.csfb.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development Rosenstrauch, David wrote: > Basically just dd the data from the partition on the bad disk to the partition > on the new disk (e.g., "dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb3"). dd_rescue. http://freshmeat.net/projects/ddrescue/ http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html Nice feature: If the OP still had had the first disk, he could have run dd_rescue on *both* disks (since they were copies of each other) and in effect recovered all data that was still readable on *either* disk (unless disk #1 was totally dead, of course). The Gentoo LiveCD has LVM2 support. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml / Rickard Olsson,IT-Konsult/ / Telefon: +46 70 635 01 42/ / http://www.webhackande.se/