[gentoo-user] Recovering installed files after hard drive replacement (was LVM Recovery....)

[BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com>]

Okay, so I got a new hard drive, and got my LVM back up using the 'partial' mode. I haven't lost anything I cared about.
Any further hard drive recovery will involve some kind of service and likely lost of $$ - if I cared that much.

Any how...I had /opt and /usr/local mapped to the VG - they were the only parts of the VG that were lost.
I know some stuff was installed to /opt at the very least (at least java, and netscape extensions).

So, are there any existing tools that will detect missing installed files and rebuild those specific builds?
Otherwise, I might try to write a script to do it, but I'd prefer something that already exists.

The system may be partially hosed until I can resolve this.

TIA,

Ben



----- Original Message ----
From: BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 5:31:01 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM Recovery....

Well...I'm fairly certain that data recovery might not be very easy - or cheap for the matter.
The system gets stuck during POST while trying to detect the SATA drive.

Using "vgreduce --removemissing" will be okay - once I verify the current state of the VG.
Is there a way to do so _with_ it trying to detect the existence of the partitions or drives? i.e. skip an integrity check and just print out what it thinks the VG is comprised of - that's really what I want at the moment.

Ben



----- Original Message ----
From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 7:14:30 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM Recovery....

vgreduce --removemissing

However there's no gaurantee you'll be able to recover your data (LVM is
not redundancy).

-a