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<font size="2">> Hi Chuck,
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> Thanks Gerald. But its single drive. In fact, its virtualized
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> pretending its on just one drive.
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Any backups available?
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<br /></font><font size="2">Hi Michael,
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<br /><b>That's part of why I'm so anxious. No backup for
this server. Still trying to figure out why the others have good
backups and this server doesn't - but its informational only now.</b>
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> And when I try to mount manually (to fix LVM, or at least recover data)
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> - the lvdisplay gives nothing at all. I've seen what its supposed to
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> report back, and its not giving that data. So I can't get the logical
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> volumes to mount manually either.
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What do "vgdisplay" "lvscan" report?
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With best regards
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Michael Stauber
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<br /><font size="2"><b>A number of the <font size="2">lvm commands give the one-line output "VolGroup<font size="2">00 is <font size="2">Exported", including the commands lvdisplay<font size="2">. lvscan s<font size="2">imply says its found VolGroup00.
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<br /><font size="2"><font size="2">The vgdisplay command results<font size="2">:
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<br />File descriptor 9 (/.console_lock) leaked on lvm invocation. Partent PID885:
<br /><font size="2"> Volume group VolGroup00 is exported
<br /><font size="2"> --- Volume group ---
<br /><font size="2"> VG Name VolGroup00
<br /><font size="2"> System ID
<br /><font size="2"> Format <font size="2">lvm2
<br /><font size="2"> Metadata Areas 1
<br /> Metadata Sequence No 9
<br /><font size="2"> VG Access r<font size="2">ead/write
<br /><font size="2"> VG Status exported/resizable
<br /><font size="2"> MAX LV 0
<br /><font size="2"> Cur LV 5
<br /><font size="2"> Open LV 0
<br /><font size="2"> Max PV 0
<br /><font size="2"> Cur PV <font size="2">1
<br /><font size="2"> Act PV <font size="2">1
<br /><font size="2"><font size="2"> VG Size 127.00 GiB
<br /><font size="2"> PE Size 32.00 MiB
<br /><font size="2"> Total PE 4064
<br /><font size="2"> Alloc PE / Size 4064 / 127.00 GiB
<br /><font size="2"> Free <font size="2">PE / Size 0 / 0
<br /><font size="2"> VG UUID o3G31E-5kz6-p2UY-TEm2-<font size="2">mZiW-9uj6-<font size="2">qrI9NL
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<br /><font size="2">Thanks for the look Michael. I'm <font size="2"><font size="2">already</font> building a replacement server, but will have to use OLD backup<font size="2">s for the sites. So if we can get th<font size="2">is one back up <font size="2">(even if just long enough to cmuExport<font size="2">) - it would be great.
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<br /><font size="2">Chuck</font>
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