Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

On Wednesday 28 October 2015 01:03:20 Doug wrote: > it is now a system which even grandmothers are using. Hey!! Ada Lovelace was a grandmother. Lisi

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On Wednesday 28 October 2015 12:30:29 Martin Read wrote: > On 28/10/15 11:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 October 2015 01:03:20 Doug wrote: > >> it is now a system which even grandmothers are using. > > > > Hey!! Ada Lovelace was a grandmother. > > Not while she was alive; sadly, she

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On 28/10/15 11:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 28 October 2015 01:03:20 Doug wrote: it is now a system which even grandmothers are using. Hey!! Ada Lovelace was a grandmother. Not while she was alive; sadly, she died before any of her children had children of their own.

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Lisi writes: > Yes, very sad - but I don't believe that, had she lived, she would > have turned into a clueless, helpless individual who couldn't use a > computer without the aid of a male. Not a male, a young person. The myth is that everyone over 60 is clueless when it comes to "technology"

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 09:03:20PM -0400, Doug wrote: > > > On 10/28/2015 12:39 AM, David Christensen wrote: > >On 10/27/2015 06:10 PM, David Christensen wrote: > >>You are free to study the source code and help the OP solve his problem. > > >

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On Wednesday 28 October 2015 13:31:31 John Hasler wrote: > Lisi writes: > > Yes, very sad - but I don't believe that, had she lived, she would > > have turned into a clueless, helpless individual who couldn't use a > > computer without the aid of a male. > > Not a male, a young person. The myth

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Lisi writes: > But grandmothers get maligned far more often than grandfathers. They just get mentioned more often. Grandfathers are mostly ignored. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

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On 10/28/2015 05:57 PM, Anton Bizzarri wrote: The efforts so far have been, - recreated the logical volume with the same drives (as well as the one that had failed previously and now seemed to be working and is back in the same place). - I can see the logical volume in lvm as well as the

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On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 9:30 PM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > > Agreed. But, there's nothing like a business data loss event to convert > them to the backup religion. If budget is an issue, there are several > "free" (as in beer) cloud storage and/or backup services

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On 10/28/2015 07:40 PM, Anton Bizzarri wrote: I will try the Debian lvm2 community. What is the URL? I am trying testdisk[1]. i want to exhaust all options before i decide to start rearranging the drives and resetting BIOSs' and CMOSs'. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk The

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On 10/28/2015 05:52 PM, Anton Bizzarri wrote: Yes, you pretty much nailed it. It's an easily $200 solution but (some) clients can't be bothered to spend it. I am not going to buy them a $200 external drive out of my pocket. Agreed. But, there's nothing like a business data loss event to

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On 10/28/2015 07:27 PM, David Christensen wrote: Check UUID's again To clarify -- check UUID's against /dev/sd* assignments. David

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 09:03:20PM -0400, Doug wrote: > I am not a programmer. (I am also not a user of Debian, but I do keep > a watch here to see what might be going on in the other popular > distros.) So I feel it is reasonable to put this out to the readers of > this list: > > What percentage

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 09:03:20PM -0400, Doug wrote: > What percentage of Debian users does anyone reading this believe to be able > to read the source code (if they even know where to look to find it) and then > to modify it to suit their needs? Surely Linux was a programmer's > wonderland when

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 6:50 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > Lots of replies on a subject you don't know the answer for ;) > > The efforts so far have been, - recreated the logical volume with the same drives (as well as the one that had failed previously and now seemed to be

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On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 08:48:17PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > I don't know -- a sufficiently skilled person (or group) might be able to do > it. I'm not such a person, and don't know of any. Try STFW for an LVM > project or community. Lots of replies on a subject you don't know the

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On 10/27/2015 03:50 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Lots of replies on a subject you don't know the answer for My view is that of an independent consultant who must deal with the harsh realities of time and money via contracts. I responded because the OP made it sound like he was in a similar

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On 10/27/2015 06:10 PM, David Christensen wrote: You are free to study the source code and help the OP solve his problem. Sorry -- that sounds harsh. I say "study the source code" because the source code is the canonical definition of what is actually going on. If I can understand the

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On 10/28/2015 12:39 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 10/27/2015 06:10 PM, David Christensen wrote: You are free to study the source code and help the OP solve his problem. Sorry -- that sounds harsh. I say "study the source code" because the source code is the canonical definition of what

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On 10/26/2015 10:14 AM, Anton Bizzarri wrote: So just to confirm, there is no way to recover the logical volume. I don't know -- a sufficiently skilled person (or group) might be able to do it. I'm not such a person, and don't know of any. Try STFW for an LVM project or community. David

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Hi David. I see what you mean. So just to confirm, there is no way to recover the logical volume. FWIW.. I am trying the following I recreated the LV with lvcreate. Luckily the old LV spanned the 100% the old LVM. I can now see the LV. I then ran ext3.fsck to repair /dev/mapper/data latest

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On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 01:14:59PM -0400, Anton Bizzarri wrote: > Hi David. I see what you mean. > > So just to confirm, there is no way to recover the logical volume. > > FWIW.. I am trying the following > > I recreated the LV with lvcreate. > > Luckily the old LV spanned the 100% the old

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On 10/23/2015 03:56 AM, Anton Bizzarri wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:55 PM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: You *do* have a back up of your data, right? No. There is no backup. Is the data lost because it was a striped volume.? Its not my server and I never worked on

Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

Hello, we had lost a drive in a LVM on Debian Squeeze. I pulled the drive and replaced it and then tried to repair it but then when I tried to recover the LVM it turned out it was a striped volume. (Its not my server! Never thought they put the data on a striped volume). So I returned the

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On 10/22/2015 02:41 PM, Anton Bizzarri wrote: Hello, we had lost a drive in a LVM on Debian Squeeze. I pulled the drive and replaced it and then tried to repair it but then when I tried to recover the LVM it turned out it was a striped volume. (Its not my server! Never thought they put the data