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 (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m0617Ddk024418 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 20:07:13 -0500 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m0616qnj016350 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 20:06:52 -0500 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a29so10345387pyi.0 for ; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:06:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 02:06:52 +0100 From: Hiamal Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Crashed disk with LVM In-Reply-To: <477DEC64.6050108@sandbox.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <477DEC64.6050108@sandbox.cz> 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" To: LVM general discussion and development Hi, On Jan 4, 2008 9:20 AM, PeS wrote: > > Hiamal wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have tow disks(hda and hdb) where tow partitions(hda2 and hdb1) a > > part of one LVM group VG01. > > Now disk hdb has crashed and I'am trying to save the data on hdb1 to > > another disk. > > I tried with knoppix dumping(dd) hda2(works) and hdb1(don't work) and > > I also tried activating the lvm group and dd the lvm volume but when > > dd comes to hdb1 the disk just hacks and sounds noisy :-P > > Instead of dd try dd_rescue. It's able to skip errors on failed disc and > read the rest. > > > What should I do? > > During dumping, prepare you regular backup plan ;-) That was my backup server... Anyway I solved the prob running ddrescue from a LiveCD dumping the recovered data to a file on a new disk. It took ca 4 days for ddrescue to do the jobb. After that I had to mounted the dumped file, activated the LVM vol's and was abel to recover almost all the data. /h