On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 03:56:51PM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote: > On Tuesday, June 15, 2010 10:25:56 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:27:32AM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote: > > > Hi Boyd, > > > At what point and how do I insert -P in the lvm system? > > > > man lvchange > > > > > Many thanks to all respondents, and NO I did not have a backup, no drive > > > big enough to hold all data. > > > > um... really? I've heard all sorts of reasons for not making backups, > > but that is *definitely* not a valid reason. (hint, there is no valid > > reason other than "The loss of this data does not matter", which > > suggests the questions "then why do you have the data?"). > > > > There are many many ways to make take backups beyond having a disk big > > enough to hold the data. > >
[...] > One good reason is that I am 73 coming on 4 and pensions are not sufficient > to > support my buying larger HDD's. > I do appreciate the effort you and others have put into your replies. But it > does seem to me that all the data is lost! I suspect your data is indeed, in general, lost. You may be able to recover some of it from the portions of the logical volumes that are on the remaining partitions, but it won't be easy (and I'm in no position to tell you how to do it, sorry). As to the other, it's unfortunate that you have more data (I'm assuing you have that much data) than you can afford to backup. In that case, you are definitely running a risk of losing that data and there's not much you can do about it. If it's reasonably cost effective for you, then the static portions of the data can be written to optical disks and archived (being sure to rotate those regularly as they go bad over time). However, if you aren't really using all that 1.3TB (or whatever amount of space it was) then pull one of those drives and stick it in an USB enclosure and use it for backups. Having ~700GB of data with the most critical ~400GB backed up is definitely preferable than no backup, IMO. But it really depends on how much data you have! A
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