I'm the maintainer for the G4L disk imaging project since version 0.15 to the current 0.37, and working on 0.38. Backing up the regular partitions that contain an LVM has been always been available, and backing up the whole disk image. Recent versions have added the ability to backup the LVM dm partitions as well. Backing up and restore works fine as long as the LVM setup is already there, but it a disk completely fails one would need to recreate the LVM before being able to restore it. Similar to how one backs up the MBR and partition table for disks, I'd like to have a method that would allow for the recreation of the LVM, so that restores could be done. Additionally, with the fsarchiver doing backups of files in use, it is generally faster than doing a raw dd type backup. Is there a script or how to that explains the process of creating a script to recreate the LVM from scratch or from an already existing partition table? Thanks. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@kuentos.guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 10870621.860383 | EINSTEIN 6012510.330851 ROSETTA 3240336.813559 | ABC 6279463.408252 _______________________________________________ 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/
