Any utility program to dump and create LVM table ?

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 15:35 +0800, Steven Shiau wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to LVM, and I am wondering is there any program which can dump
> the LVM table to a file or create LVM table from a file ?
> What I mean is just like sfdisk to partition table, I can use
> sfdisk -d /dev/hda > hda.pf
> to dump the partition table.
> And with this file "hda.pf", I can easily create a partition table in
> another HD like:
> sfdisk /dev/hda < hda.pf
> 
> I know with vgs, pvs, and lvs maybe I can write a script. But if such a utility program exists, then that's easier.

Something like vgcfgbackup and vgcfgrestore?

I don't think these are *quite* what you're after because they expect
particular UUIDs for each volume, useful for getting at data you already
have, whereas I think you're after a way of cloning an LVM setup.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>