[linux-lvm] waah waah - disaster recovery

[Rosenstrauch, David]

> Rosenstrauch, David wrote:
> 
> > Basically just dd the data from the partition on the bad 
> disk to the partition
> > on the new disk (e.g., "dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb3").
> 
> dd_rescue.
> 
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/ddrescue/
> http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html


Wow - cool util!  Wish I had known about this a week ago!  :-)


> The Gentoo LiveCD has LVM2 support.
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml

>      / Rickard Olsson,IT-Konsult/


Also very good to know.  Thanks for the info, Rickard!

DR

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