Many, many, many thanks. After sleeping for a few hours and eating a proper breakfast I managed to restore all of the lost data thanks to your hints. Eternally thankful, Martin <div> 2006/2/5, Alasdair G Kergon <<a href="mailto:agk@redhat.com">agk@redhat.com</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 07:05:10PM +0100, Martin Lindquist wrote: > The backup of /etc was done after running 'lvremove' and 'vgexport' so if I > understand you correctly that won't do any good. Take a look at your backup and check the comments in the files in /etc/lvm/archive/<vgname>* Alasdair -- <a href="mailto:agk@redhat.com">agk@redhat.com</a> _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-lvm@redhat.com"> linux-lvm@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm</a> read the LVM HOW-TO at <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ </a> </blockquote></div>