Hi, I think I have tried all solutions google could give me without any luck restoring any data. The problem is the following: 1. I had to reinstall a server to where this volumegroup belonged 2. I umounted all LVs. And deactivated the VG. And then I did a vgexport of the VG 3. After the reinstall of the linux server it was time to import the VG that had 2 harddrives. I ran a pvscan and it only detected one drive! I started some investigation and i noticed the second drive was totaly dead! And of course since this was a server at my home I didnt have any backups of this VG. And since one drive is missing it's impossible to import the part of the VG I have left. I know that most of all PEs for my /home are on the drive that is still working. Now I wonder how on earth can I restore any of the data that is still on my working drive? I had 4 years of mail and some source code I would die for to get back. Since I only have metadata from the only drive working I think I have a little problem ;) All I want is to get as much of the data out from datavg/homelv. I attached a log file with the output from pvscan and pvdata. Sincerely Stefan Wold
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