On 10/28/2014 12:42 PM, reynierpm at gmail.com wrote: > # grep -H 'description =' /etc/lvm/archive/vg_devserver* > /etc/lvm/archive/vg_devserver_00000-1387802225.vg:description = "Created > *before* executing '/sbin/vgs --noheadings -o name --config > 'log{command_names=0 prefix=\" \"}''" > /etc/lvm/archive/vg_devserver_00001-1037597683.vg:description = "Created > *before* executing 'vgextend vg_devserver /dev/sda3'" > /etc/lvm/archive/vg_devserver_00002-1876503.vg:description = "Created > *before* executing 'lvextend -L+29.99 /dev/vg_devserver/lv_root'" > /etc/lvm/archive/vg_devserver_00003-1263624397.vg:description = "Created > *before* executing 'vgreduce --removemissing vg_devserver'" > /etc/lvm/archive/vg_devserver_00004-313693030.vg:description = "Created > *before* executing 'vgreduce --removemissing vg_devserver --force'" That all there are??? By default that archive should go back a minimum of 30 days and a minimum of 10 files, whichever is larger. All I see here is a history of your recovery efforts. Did you make that change from a live CD, or something? If necessary I could edit the backup file that you have now and clean out all reference to the missing PV, but I'd rather not do that if there is a safer way. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.