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-
