I don't have this issue with anything critical, but I know the time is
coming. I know how to do it when I have the original system, but I would
like to find a reliable way when someone brings me a drive from a dead
system and wants to pull data off of it.

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net>
wrote:

> After a long battle with technology, Shawn Badger wrote:
> > Speaking of LVM stuff. Is there a good way to do a vgimport on a PV that
> > wasn't exported before the machine died?
>
> Not vgimport specifically, but the VG metadata *should* have been backed
> up
> the last time you made a change to the VG in /etc/lvm/backup/ .  It looks
> like you can restore that with vgcfgrestore according to the man pages.
>  If
> that dir is no longer available or the file containing the metadata has
> been
> zorched, I don't know for sure what you'd do.
>
> > I have personally been shying away form using [LVM] on non-raided
> systems
> > because of past issues I have had with disk that have [PVs] on them from
> > dead machines.
>
> This is why you do regular backups of the important junk.  If a system is
> using LVM, /etc/lvm/ is in the "important junk" category.
>
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