Well I've been digging through man pages and this list trying to see if I can determine the proper steps to insure a good recovery. The background is I lost the root drive on one of my RH8 systems. On it were /, /usr, /usr/local, /usr/src. / was not under LVM. I have Amanda backups of all the data. I even have done a vgcfgbackup and I have all the metadata (and the lvmconf directory) saved on another drive. I want to verify that my recovery steps make sense: 1. install new drive (it is identical to failed drive) 2. boot from rescue CD 3. partition new drive same as old drive (sfdisk /dev/hde <oldhde.conf) 4. run vgcfgrestore on new drive for all Volume Groups that had LV/PVs that were present on failed drive. 5. restore / filesystem on new drive from backup tar ( I do this for /) . 6. reboot 7. (do I need to mkfs on LVM partition here? any special mkfs command?) 7. install temporary version of Amanda to use for recovery 8. restore the /usr, /usr/local, and /usr/src filesystems from backup tapes. 9. reboot 10. remove temporary Amanda install. All should be normal? Can it be this simple? This seems too easy. My concern is with step 4. Do I need to do more than this for LVM like run lvcreate or pvcreate? Thanks for any guidance, Gerry Reno --- grenoml <grenoml@yahoo.com> wrote: > Can someone point me to a HOW-TO for doing a full bare-metal recovery > for a Linux system (RedHat 8.0) that is using LVM that suffered > complete hard drive failure. I have a full set of Amanda backup > tapes > that can be network mounted from tape drive on another server. > > Thanks, > Gerry Reno > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
