[linux-lvm] pecopy or lecopy

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

Hi Anand.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:39:28AM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Quite some time ago, Heinz assisted me with a partial recovery of
> data from one of my LVM volumes. In the meantime I've managed to
> reconstruct a lot of it but have discovered there are one or two
> items I need to get back from the original.
> 
> I'm using LVM tool 1.1rc1 reports:
> caliban:~# vgscan
> vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> vgscan -- found active volume group "caliban"
> vgscan -- only found 11364 of 11520 LEs for LV /dev/caliban/h2
> vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created
> vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group
> 
> If I try and mount the h2 filesystem my kernel opps as the first 150
> PE<->LE mappings don't exist. Has anyone written a tool that copies
> either PEs or LEs from disk without mounting the affected partition?

Not that I am aware if.

A tool to extract accessable LEs of a LV basically needs to:

- run "lvdisplay -Dv /dev/caliban/h2" in order to retrieve all
  physical volumes and extents of the LV

- pvdisplay -v on all of the PVs to get the mapping and run
  dd commands for every extend which name the output files per le

Attached script, which *needs* 1.1-rc tools to run, tries this:

Tell me, if it is of any use for you.

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

> 
> That would allow me to salvage more of the data. I'm at the point where
> writing the code myself is an option if only I got some pointers. I'm
> unclear on where the mapping from LE<->PE<->disk blocks is stored. Plus
> I'm finding it confusing trying to see which version of the on-disk metadata
> LVM is using.
> 
> Thanks,
> Anand
> 
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