From: Chris Streeter <chris@chrisstreeter.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Recovering Accidentally Destroyed LVM2 Information
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:02:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinqheB0NkHcM8ruT0Rxs-01xfnPgA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110427095728.6317526d@bettercgi.com>
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Wow, thanks so much guys. I restored the config and then was able to run
fsck.ext3 on the device. It took a while to run and had to fix a bunch of
stuff, but it looks like my data is back. Very, very grateful.
Cheers!
- Chris
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 07:57, Ray Morris <support@bettercgi.com> wrote:
> vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvm/archive/FILENAME VGNAME
>
> But see "man vgcfgrestore"
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> On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:58:25 -0700
> Chris Streeter <chris@chrisstreeter.com> wrote:
>
> > > What you *should* have done is restore the metadata to the point
> > > before your errant command. You can still do that (if it is still
> > > in the archive), but the several K of zeros written to the start of
> > > the LV you created will require recovery.
> >
> > So I still have all the files in the archive of the form
> > raid_vg_0000*.vg
> >
> > If have those files, how would I go about restoring the metadata to
> > the device? If I were to loose several K of data, I'm totally fine
> > with that.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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> >
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-27 3:12 [linux-lvm] Recovering Accidentally Destroyed LVM2 Information Chris Streeter
2011-04-27 3:41 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-04-27 3:58 ` Chris Streeter
2011-04-27 13:03 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-04-27 14:57 ` Ray Morris
2011-04-27 22:02 ` Chris Streeter [this message]
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2011-04-27 3:07 Chris Streeter
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