User Guide

The following picture illustrates this configuration.

Do the following to recover data from this archive.

Step 1: Creating the volume structure

1. Boot the machine from a Linux-based bootable media.

2. In the management console, press CTRL+ALT+F2.

3. Run the following commands to create the MD devices:

mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sd[ab]

mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sd[cd]

4. Run the following commands to create the logical volume group:

Caution: The pvcreate command destroys all data on the /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 devices.

lvm pvcreate /dev/md0 /dev/md1

lvm vgcreate my_volgroup /dev/md0 /dev/md1

lvm vgdisplay

The output of the lvm vgdisplay command will contain lines similar to the following:

--- Volume group ---

VG Name my_volgroup

...

VG Access read/write

VG Status resizable

...

VG Size 1.99 GB

...

VG UUID 0qoQ4l-Vk7W-yDG3-uF1l-Q2AL-C0z0-vMeACu

5. Run the following command to create the logical volume; in the -L parameter, specify the size

given by VG Size:

lvm lvcreate -L1.99G --name my_logvol my_volgroup

6. Activate the volume group by running the following command:

lvm vgchange -a y my_volgroup

7. Press CTRL+ALT+F1 to return to the management console.

Step 2: Starting the recovery

1. In the management console, click Recover.

2. In Archive, click Change and then specify the name of the archive.