Anyway to Access LVM from Windows?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Jun 12 13:10:28 UTC 2006


Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 04:17, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>> Is there a guide to recovering data from them?  So far I've kept
>>> everything critical on hand-configured RAID1 partitions because
>>> I know how to recover data from any single disk that might be left
>>> after a disaster. 
>> I run LVM over RAID1 for the same reasons.
> 
> Can you set that up during the initial install?

Yes. Set up the RAID1 as normal, then set up the LVM on the md device.

> Also, are
> there steps you have to take when cloning machines by
> dd or rebuilding raid mirrors to make sure they don't
> confuse the system if you move drives around and
> end up with a duplicate in the same machine (like the
> filesystem labels do)?

If you're moving drives to another system you can "export" a volume 
group and then "import" it on another system.

Can't advise on cloning as I've never tried it.

Paul.




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