On 06/12/2011 12:44 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > 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. Recovery is very easy with LVM (once you find how to do that:-) I suggest you read the LVM documentation, mainly the section 6. LVM troubleshooting. http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/Logical_Volume_Manager_Administration/index.html All you need to recover LVM metadata is metadata backup (automatically maintained in /etc/lvm or directory specified in lvm.conf) and then something like pvcreate -u <uuid> --restorefile <backup file> <PV> # only if PV header is lost! vgcfgrestore -f <backup file> <VG> Milan _______________________________________________ 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/
