From: "Dieter Stüken" <stueken@conterra.de>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Restore LVM without UIDs
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 08:43:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4476A39C.8040108@conterra.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06F5C23A-EF8A-4DB1-898C-BCAF9AD9A9E3@mit.edu>
Sabin Dang wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I assisted in restoring a server today that was connected to an
> external raid that used LVM. Unfortunately there was no backup of the
> LVM config files prior to reinstalling the operating system.
>
> Is there any way to retrieve the data stored on the LVM without the old
> config files?
At least for LVM2, all meta data is stored on each PV/disk, too. Thus, until
you did not destroy your LVM header/metadata of your disk(s), the former
LVM should be recognized without any external config informations.
Else, you may have a problem. If you have overwritten the first part
of your previous PV, you may try to search the starting point(s) of former
LV(s), and if you are lucky, they have been allocated contiguously.
In this case you may have a good change to recover something.
Dieter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-26 6:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-25 23:23 [linux-lvm] Restore LVM without UIDs Sabin Dang
2006-05-26 6:43 ` Dieter Stüken [this message]
2006-06-01 11:18 ` [linux-lvm] " Thomas
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4476A39C.8040108@conterra.de \
--to=stueken@conterra.de \
--cc=linux-lvm@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).