Hi Melinda, Yes I tried using LVM2 very early since it was said it could cope with disks that were inaccesible. However the vgreduce --removemissing doesn't work. I believe it is because I did a vgexport before the 2nd disk went out of business. And since I cant import the VG because one of the drives are gone Im kinda in a dead end. Sincerely Stefan Wold On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Melinda Taylor wrote: > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
