Many, many, many thanks. After sleeping for a few hours and eating a proper
breakfast I managed to restore all of the lost data thanks to your hints.

Eternally thankful,
Martin

2006/2/5, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>:
>
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 07:05:10PM +0100, Martin Lindquist wrote:
> > The backup of /etc was done after running 'lvremove' and 'vgexport' so
> if I
> > understand you correctly that won't do any good.
>
> Take a look at your backup and check the comments in the files
> in /etc/lvm/archive/<vgname>*
>
> Alasdair
> --
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