Re: Copy data from a failed LVM drive
Stefan Monnier wrote: I had a drive failure (SMART errors) on a drive with LVM. I've replaced the drive, but now need to copy the data from the old drive. How can I do this? Vgscan only shows the VG of the 'current' drive. Are both drives connected? If so, have you created different VGs on each drive? Yes, both drives are connected and have different VGs. Hmm... so they have different VGs but `vgscan' only shows one of the two? That's odd. How are the drives connected? What does pvscan -vvv say? FWIW, here's how I'd ideally do the replacement: 1 - plug in the new drive. Let's say it appears as /dev/sdb 2 - partition it with `fdisk' so I have 1 large partition /dev/sdb1. 3 - pvcreate /dev/sdb1 4 - vgextend VG /dev/sdb1 (where VG is your old volume group name) 5 - pvmove /dev/sda1 (where /dev/sda1 is the physical volume on the old drive) 6 - vgreduce VG /dev/sda1 7 - pvremove /dev/sda1 8 - remove old drive Stefan This worked perfectly Stefan. Thank you very much. This made it so easy. Mike -- Congratulations! You are the one-millionth user to log into our system. 23:05:01 up 4:24, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.12, 0.04 Linux Registered User #241685 http://counter.li.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Copy data from a failed LVM drive
I had a drive failure (SMART errors) on a drive with LVM. I've replaced the drive, but now need to copy the data from the old drive. How can I do this? Vgscan only shows the VG of the 'current' drive. Thanks, Mike -- A bad random number generator: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4.33e+67, 1, 1, 1 15:40:01 up 19:05, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.17, 0.17 Linux Registered User #241685 http://counter.li.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Copy data from a failed LVM drive
I had a drive failure (SMART errors) on a drive with LVM. I've replaced the drive, but now need to copy the data from the old drive. How can I do this? Vgscan only shows the VG of the 'current' drive. Are both drives connected? If so, have you created different VGs on each drive? Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Copy data from a failed LVM drive
Stefan Monnier wrote: I had a drive failure (SMART errors) on a drive with LVM. I've replaced the drive, but now need to copy the data from the old drive. How can I do this? Vgscan only shows the VG of the 'current' drive. Are both drives connected? If so, have you created different VGs on each drive? Stefan Yes, both drives are connected and have different VGs. -- To iterate is human; to recurse, divine. 16:30:01 up 19:55, 2 users, load average: 0.38, 0.27, 0.22 Linux Registered User #241685 http://counter.li.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Copy data from a failed LVM drive
I had a drive failure (SMART errors) on a drive with LVM. I've replaced the drive, but now need to copy the data from the old drive. How can I do this? Vgscan only shows the VG of the 'current' drive. Are both drives connected? If so, have you created different VGs on each drive? Yes, both drives are connected and have different VGs. Hmm... so they have different VGs but `vgscan' only shows one of the two? That's odd. How are the drives connected? What does pvscan -vvv say? FWIW, here's how I'd ideally do the replacement: 1 - plug in the new drive. Let's say it appears as /dev/sdb 2 - partition it with `fdisk' so I have 1 large partition /dev/sdb1. 3 - pvcreate /dev/sdb1 4 - vgextend VG /dev/sdb1 (where VG is your old volume group name) 5 - pvmove /dev/sda1 (where /dev/sda1 is the physical volume on the old drive) 6 - vgreduce VG /dev/sda1 7 - pvremove /dev/sda1 8 - remove old drive Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
