Hi Stefan, I am working through the exact same scenario so you may like to look through my posts and peoples advice in the LVM archive (july): http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2003-July/subject.html Basically I had 2 disks fail which were part of my VG. I now have 2 of 4 LV's left and am trying to retrieve the data. As suggested the only way to recover data from a partial VG is to upgrade to LVM2. I have done that and LVM2 can now activate my partial VG - but I haven't quite retrieved the data from it yet. Hope that helps, Melinda Quoting ratler@lunar-linux.org: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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/
