On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 07:04:17PM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 01:12:05PM +0100, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > > > Unfortunately, that doesn't work because I had a cron job that was creating > > > daily snapshots (in an attempt to emulate ONTAP's snapshot's feature), so my > > > 10 backups contain snapshot LVs > > > > Well, in this case you might still have a consistent backup with snapshots > > which you can use like mentioned above. > > I tried a few and none seemed to work, but I restored one from before I made > snapshots and recovered from this. > I now have my system back (/usr, /var) > > As for /home, as soon as I tried to access it (e2fsck, tune2fs -O > ^has_journal, or whatever), the process hung in "wait_o" according to ps. > > I tried to restore the VG to its state before I added snapshots, but that > only made it go away :-( > > mechastreisand:/etc/lvmconf# vgchange -a n /dev/BigAssLVMRaid <SNIP> > -> My BigAssLVMRaid VG is gone :-( > > Did I just lose my data? If you really tried all your metadata backups unsuccessfully, I am afraid so :-( Some users reported snapshot problems with the recent 2.4.x kernels. They are not 100% reliable due to VM issues being sorted out by the kernel community hopefully which will hopefully be integrated in 2.4.18. > > Marc > -- > Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... > .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking > > Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger marc_f@merlins.org for PGP key > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
