[linux-lvm] Recovering Accidentally Destroyed LVM2 Information

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Chris Streeter wrote:

>> What you *should* have done is restore the metadata to the point before
>> your errant command.  You can still do that (if it is still in the archive),
>> but the several K of zeros written to the start of the LV you created will
>> require recovery.
>
> So I still have all the files in the archive of the form raid_vg_0000*.vg
>
> If have those files, how would I go about restoring the metadata to
> the device? If I were to loose several K of data, I'm totally fine
> with that.

man vgcfgrestore

I believe you want 
# vgcfgrestore -f /path/to/archived/metadata raid_vg

The '-l' option should list available archives if vg is still live.

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