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Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

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On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 01:14:59PM -0400, Anton Bizzarri wrote:
> Hi David. I see what you mean.
> 
> So just to confirm, there is no way to recover the logical volume.
> 
> FWIW.. I am trying the following
> 
> I recreated the LV with lvcreate.
> 
> Luckily the old LV spanned the 100% the old LVM.
> 
> I can now see the LV.
> 
> I then ran ext3.fsck to repair /dev/mapper/data
> 
> 
> latest errors i get are:
> Oct 26 13:07:38 arbor kernel: [349276.552056] EXT3-fs error (device dm-0):
> ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 384 not in group (block 0)!
> Oct 26 13:07:38 arbor kernel: [349276.559433] EXT3-fs (dm-0): error: group
> descriptors corrupted
> 
> Then I am running ext3.fsck /dev/dm-0
> 
> and just waiting for it to finish.
> 
> FWIW. There are a multitude of reasons why there is no backup in place. In
> this particular case, there is no SLA to cover the regular backup of 3TB of
> data. So there is no money available to invest in hardware or services to
> backup the data. The agreement is try "best effort" to recover data if it
> goes down.
> 

A 3TB external disk on USB is well under $200. 

Was their data worth $200 a year?

No levels of RAID are equivalent to backup. 

-dsr-

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Lost LVM data - lost logical volume Anton Bizzarri <anton.bizzari@drgit.ca> - 2015-10-22 23:50 +0200
  Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2015-10-23 04:10 +0200
    Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2015-10-26 00:00 +0100
      Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume Anton Bizzarri <anton.bizzari@drgit.ca> - 2015-10-26 18:20 +0100
        Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2015-10-26 18:30 +0100
        Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2015-10-27 04:50 +0100
          Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2015-10-27 12:40 +0100
            Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2015-10-28 02:20 +0100
              Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2015-10-28 05:40 +0100
                Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2015-10-28 06:10 +0100
                Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-10-28 09:20 +0100
                Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-10-28 10:20 +0100
                Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2015-10-28 10:40 +0100
                Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-28 12:20 +0100
                Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2015-10-28 14:00 +0100
                Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-28 14:10 +0100
                Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-10-28 14:40 +0100
                Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-28 19:50 +0100
                Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-10-28 21:10 +0100
              Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2015-10-29 03:40 +0100
                Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume Anton Bizzarri <anton.bizzari@drgit.ca> - 2015-10-29 03:50 +0100
                Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2015-10-29 04:00 +0100
            Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume Anton Bizzarri <anton.bizzari@drgit.ca> - 2015-10-29 02:00 +0100
              Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2015-10-29 03:30 +0100
                Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2015-10-29 03:40 +0100

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