Extracting LVM metadata backups from a physical volume

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You can extract LVM metadata from a wiped off LVM physical volume so that Red Hat support can recover the volume using the backups.

Prerequisites

  • The lvm2 package is installed.

Procedure

  1. Check the headers on the physical volume.

    # pvck --dump headers /dev/sda1
    
  2. Search for volume group m...

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