From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k1699H128062 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 04:09:17 -0500 Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.197]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k1699GqP028989 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 04:09:16 -0500 Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id q2so776607uge for ; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 01:09:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <77ec93690602060109g179f3622r@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 10:09:15 +0100 From: Martin Lindquist Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Accidental removal of logical volume - any way to salvage? In-Reply-To: <20060205205445.GD22481@agk.surrey.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_25347_12581636.1139216955808" References: <77ec93690602050953r6ada49aat@mail.gmail.com> <20060205175808.GA22481@agk.surrey.redhat.com> <77ec93690602051005k3c4d8cbah@mail.gmail.com> <20060205205445.GD22481@agk.surrey.redhat.com> 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: To: LVM general discussion and development ------=_Part_25347_12581636.1139216955808 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 : > > 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/* > > Alasdair > -- > agk@redhat.com > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > ------=_Part_25347_12581636.1139216955808 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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.<= br>
Eternally thankful,
Martin

2006/2/5, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redha= t.com>:
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 07:05:10PM +0100, Martin Lindquist wrote:
> T= he backup of /etc was done after running 'lvremove' and 'vgexport' so if I<= br>> 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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agk@redhat.com

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