nevermind, the problem I have is much worse than I imagined, but has nothing to do with LVM. Basically the array was wiped and mkswap and mke2fs was run on it. I have no hopes of recovery... On 29, Jun, 2005, Dan B. Phung declared: > ah, I think the -l wasn't needed, but still I have no luck: > > blade01:backup # vgcfgrestore big_cheese > Couldn't find device with uuid '6uBYm4-WiAQ-eZib-t6hK-IH2c-fmAQ-0a9K9i'. > Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group big_cheese. > Restore failed. > > is it safe to recreate the physical volumes? does anything get wiped, or > does the meta just get reconstituted? > > > On 29, Jun, 2005, Dan B. Phung declared: > > > this is related to my earlier post of: > > my volume group disappeared! > > > > I'm trying to restore the vg, which I backed up before with: > > vgcfgbackup -f big_cheese_VG.2005.5.12 big_cheese > > > > now, when I try to restore, I get these errors: > > > > blade01:root # vgcfgrestore -d -v -f big_cheese_VG.2005.5.12 -l -n > > big_cheese big_cheese > > Loaded external locking library liblvm2clusterlock.so > > > > File: /etc/lvm/archive/big_cheese_00000.vg > > Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices > > Couldn't find device with uuid '6uBYm4-WiAQ-eZib-t6hK-IH2c-fmAQ-0a9K9i'. > > VG name: big_cheese > > Description: Created *before* executing 'vgchange -aly' > > Backup Time: Mon Jun 6 00:50:26 2005 > > > > > > File: /etc/lvm/backup/big_cheese > > Couldn't find device with uuid '6uBYm4-WiAQ-eZib-t6hK-IH2c-fmAQ-0a9K9i'. > > VG name: big_cheese > > Description: Created *after* executing 'vgchange -aly' > > Backup Time: Mon Jun 6 00:50:26 2005 > > > > > > ..and I've tried this after doing vgchange -aln > > > > -dan > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-lvm mailing list > > linux-lvm@redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > > > > -- email: phung@cs.columbia.edu www: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~phung phone: 646-775-6090 office: CS Dept. 520, 1214 Amsterdam Ave., MC 0401, New York, NY 10027 _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
