Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-12 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Bad. Depends on the amount of damage you have created, the following procedure would work: I believe the failure is in /dev/sda8, around 30GB, based on your fileserver lvm backup file. Upload an older one for me to be sure. pvcreate -u GBsXFQ-RdXS-iMhp-Phle-iqfM-5571-aJgQAa /dev/sda8 (if

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-12 Thread Boris shtrasman
/dev/sda8 had been wiped out totally The other restore fails : vgcfgrestore -f fileserver fileserver File descriptor 13 (socket:[7450]) leaked on vgcfgrestore invocation. Parent PID 3952: bash Couldn't find device with uuid fVkJmY-pdwD-bub8-URE8-lNc2-eyhr-IIxIez. Cannot restore Volume Group

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-12 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Did you use pvcreate -u on the drive? Without it, it won't work. Also - you *must* use a backup configuration file with all the data in it. Post one of these online, and I would be able to assist further. Ez 2010/10/12 Boris shtrasman borissh1...@gmail.com /dev/sda8 had been wiped out

How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-11 Thread Boris shtrasman
Hi, Yesterday my harddrive had an inconvenient event: when I was using a d-i from testing I accidentally overwritten on of the pv's connected to the lvm. I started to panic and found myself making more damage by running vgreduce --*remove*-*missing* since in one of the rescue files it noted this

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Boris shtrasman wrote: Hi, Yesterday my harddrive had an inconvenient event: when I was using a d-i from testing I accidentally overwritten on of the pv's connected to the lvm. I started to panic and found myself making more damage by running

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-11 Thread Boris shtrasman
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Boris shtrasman wrote: Hi, Yesterday my harddrive had an inconvenient event: when I was using a d-i from testing I accidentally overwritten on of the pv's

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:41:38AM +0200, Boris shtrasman wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Boris shtrasman wrote: Hi, Yesterday my harddrive had an inconvenient event: when I was

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-11 Thread Boris shtrasman
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:41:38AM +0200, Boris shtrasman wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:36:33AM +0200,

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-11 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 11 בOctober 2010 11:50:45 Boris shtrasman wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David Not gparted, gpart: http://www.brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/index.html Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary