[linux-lvm] error trying to vgcfgrestore

[Dan B. Phung]

ah, I think the -l wasn't needed, but still I have no luck:

blade01:backup # vgcfgrestore big_cheese
  Couldn't find device with uuid '6uBYm4-WiAQ-eZib-t6hK-IH2c-fmAQ-0a9K9i'.
  Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group big_cheese.
  Restore failed.

is it safe to recreate the physical volumes?  does anything get wiped, or
does the meta just get reconstituted?  


On 29, Jun, 2005, Dan B. Phung declared:

> this is related to my earlier post of:
>   [linux-lvm] my volume group disappeared!
> 
> I'm trying to restore the vg, which I backed up before with:
>   vgcfgbackup -f big_cheese_VG.2005.5.12 big_cheese
> 
> now, when I try to restore, I get these errors:
> 
> blade01:root # vgcfgrestore -d -v -f big_cheese_VG.2005.5.12 -l -n 
> big_cheese big_cheese
>     Loaded external locking library liblvm2clusterlock.so
> 
>   File:         /etc/lvm/archive/big_cheese_00000.vg
>     Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
>   Couldn't find device with uuid '6uBYm4-WiAQ-eZib-t6hK-IH2c-fmAQ-0a9K9i'.
>   VG name:      big_cheese
>   Description:  Created *before* executing 'vgchange -aly'
>   Backup Time:  Mon Jun  6 00:50:26 2005
> 
> 
>   File:         /etc/lvm/backup/big_cheese
>   Couldn't find device with uuid '6uBYm4-WiAQ-eZib-t6hK-IH2c-fmAQ-0a9K9i'.
>   VG name:      big_cheese
>   Description:  Created *after* executing 'vgchange -aly'
>   Backup Time:  Mon Jun  6 00:50:26 2005
> 
> 
> ..and I've tried this after doing vgchange -aln
> 
> -dan
> 
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