[CentOS] HowTo Recover Lost Data from LVM RAID1 ?

[Alain Reguera Delgado]

On 1/18/08, Timothy Selivanow <timothy.selivanow at virtualxistenz.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 15:47 -0500, Alain Reguera Delgado wrote:
...
>
> When you booted to rescue mode on the CD, did you let it find your
> existing CentOS install and mount it (I can't remember if it will
> continue in degraded mode ATM)?  You should also be able to see the data
> with just one drive IIRC, you just need to be able to map the LVM
> volumes.  Except for the MD meta-data, the bits should be 1-for-1 across
> the disks AFAIK.

Yes. I let it until the anaconda screen asks me to: continue,
Read-Only, Skip ... I pressed Continue ... no system was detected but
I can mount md0 and md1, also read some old data on md1 ... What I
can't access is the new one I put there recently (weeks ago). :(

> Check out http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ for more info about LVM.

Thanks.

Cheers,
al.