[linux-lvm] Lost VG after failed pvmove

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

Thomas,

you need to vgcfgrestore the metadata backaup to *all* of the PVs which belonged
to the VG at the time the backup was created.
Then vgscan should see your VG quite happily again.

In regard to the pvmove error: do you have the particular error output it gave?

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --


On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:43:36PM +0200, Thomas Svedberg wrote:
> I know, I should have made a backup. But I didn't so ...
> 
> Short version:
> After a failed pvmove I can not find my VG.
> 
> Long version:
> I was about to move more parts of my fs over to LVm and therefore used a
> new disk as help. And apparantly the wrong way.
> I first created a PV on the new disk and then added it to my VG, no
> problems.
> I then shrank the LV:s to fit the new disk. OK
> Next I pvmoved the LV:s from the original disk to the new one, still no
> problems.
> Then I removed the different PV from the original disk (I had started ot
> with a small one and then moved LV over to LVM one after the other and
> adding the freed spacce to the VG), removed the partitions and created one
> new big one instead of all the small.
> pvcreated it and vgextended it, all OK.
> So now I wanted to move the data back to this (faster) disk.
> pvmove failed after moving a few (24 ?, see below) LE (PE?).
> 
> The fs seemed OK and I rebooted to see if it helped. No
> After reboot no VG was found.
> pvdisplay showed the newly added (destination of the move) PV as new, i.e.
> not belonging to any VG.
> 
> Using vgcfgresore I was able to make the PV look like it belonged to my
> VG, but it looks empty still.
> 
> Still nothing is found by vgscan.
> 
> Reading through the howto I found the Dangerous Operations and did as
> described there. Now vgscan finds my VG but it says:
> 
> vgscan -- only found 1357 of 1381 LEs for LV /dev/my_vg/home (0)
> vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" can't get data of volume group "my_vg" from physical volume(s)
> vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" creating "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"
> 
> vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> vgscan -- found inactive volume group "my_vg"
> 
> so it seems the 24 LE:s that was moved is 'missing'
> 
> Can anyone help me restore this ?
> 
> And, yes, next time I will be using tar to move my data....
> 
> / Thomas
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