Re: [sheflug] restoring LVM volumes

[David Holden <dh [at] xxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 27 Apr 2006 15:46, John M Cooper wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 11:12 +0100, David Holden wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >   One of our servers had a primary hard disk crask, we've restore this
> > but don't know how to re0 set up the LVM volumes that were are a separate
> > disk array.
> >
> >  Any ideas?
>
> I think that if you run lvmdiskscan this will search through all your
> disks and find the lvm partitions.
>
> john
>
>
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We managed to get the lvm metadata by reconstructing it from  a dd in=/dev/sda 
run on the disk array.

But in the end we could not get it to mount the partitions.

Lesson learn: backup you lvm metadata data

 Thanks,

             Dave.



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