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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Logical Volume Manager question Post 24556 by Perderabo on Sunday 14th of July 2002 09:43:03 PM
Old 07-14-2002
I do not understand how simply making a recovery tape could cause such a disaster. Did you try to run that tape? If you simply were running make_recovery and this happened I think that it was coincidence and you actually have some other problem.

But in any event, after a disaster like this, vgscan is the way I would proceed. First I would "cp /etc/lvmtab /etc/lvmtab.save". Then I would run "vgscan -pv" and see if it looks reasonable. As long as you use -p nothing will actually change. If it looks good (or at least better than the current state), I would run "pvscan -v". It may tell you to run other programs next like vgchange. Follow the instructions the vgscan gives you. Good luck.
 

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VGCFGBACKUP(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    VGCFGBACKUP(8)

NAME
vgcfgbackup - backup volume group descriptor area SYNOPSIS
vgcfgbackup [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose] [VolumeGroupName...] DESCRIPTION
vgcfgbackup allows you to backup the metadata or Volume Group Descriptor Area (VGDA) of one to all volume groups to files in /etc/lvmconf. If you don't give any volume groups in the command line, all of them will be backed up. This DOESN'T backup user/system data in logical volume(s)! To restore volume group descriptor area backups see the vgcfgrestore(8) tool. A 10 step history is backed up in /etc/lvm- conf/VolumeGroupName.conf and /etc/lvmconf/VolumeGroupName.conf.[1-9].old. This enables you to restore your volume group configuration up to 10 steps back in the backup history. OPTIONS -d, --debug Enables additional debugging output (if compiled with DEBUG). -h, --help Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully. -v, --verbose Gives verbose runtime information about vgcfgbackup's activities. DIAGNOSTICS
vgcfgbackup returns an exit code of 0 for success and > 0 for error: 1 error doing backup 95 driver/module not in kernel 96 invalid I/O protocol version 97 error locking logical volume manager 98 invalid lvmtab (run vgscan(8)) 99 invalid command line SEE ALSO
lvm(8), vgcfgrestore(8), vgcreate(8) AUTHOR
Heinz Mauelshagen <Linux-LVM@Sistina.com> Heinz Mauelshagen LVM TOOLS VGCFGBACKUP(8)
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