Expert Help needed (raid1+lvm) Did I destroy 2TB of backups?

2010-11-12 Thread Dean S. Messing
My System: up-to-date Fedora 13 The Situation: I have two 2TB drives (/dev/sde1, /dev/sdf1) bound into a RAID-1 on /dev/md1. This device (md1) is an lvm PV on which there is a single VG (vg_medulla_bkup) In the VG is a single LV (vg_bkup). All has been working well since I built it two weeks

Re: Expert Help needed (raid1+lvm) Did I destroy 2TB of backups?

2010-11-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/11/2010 03:09 PM, Dean S. Messing wrote: Thanks for your help. I can't help with your raid issue, but you should know that either this message was delayed for a day or your system clock's a day slow. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Expert Help needed (raid1+lvm) Did I destroy 2TB of backups?

2010-11-12 Thread Laurentiu Coica
Hi Dean, I just make some test for you, in a virtual machine First, I buid a similar environment, with lvm and raid1, over two disk, with VG vg_medulla_bkup and LV lv_bkup [r...@rhel6 ~]# mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 mdadm: /dev/md1 has been started with 2 drives. [r...@rhel6

Re: Expert Help needed (raid1+lvm) Did I destroy 2TB of backups? (Solved!)

2010-11-12 Thread Dean S. Messing
Laurentiu Coica wrote: Long, detailed technical demo snipped Thanks VERY much, Laurentiu, for all the work you went through! I must apologise for not including more details of what I did. There are some differences between what I did and what you simulated which makes your conclusion not quite