Octavio, > Thanks for reply and for the links, fortunately I already have recovery my info, Wha t I do was edit the backup of the metadata manually to remove the missing disk (it doesn't have any info) then I restore the backup and done, the disk starts OK and all the data was there That's the good news, and thank you for the explanation about the way how you recovered it. Thanks, Taka _______________________________________________ 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/