It was late at night... I was working on improves and I'd put a pitcher of margarita away. I should have probably gone to bed. But it drives me crazy when something doesn't work and I wanted to resolve the problem. So, I took my new ISO and did an auto upgrade (or so I thought) on my SBE. A reboot later, I went to recreate_lvm.sh only to have it complain about not being able to find a drive w/ UUID abcd-efgh-blah-blah-blah. What?! What happened? Was it my new kernel? No, it cannot be... What is going on?!

I checked /home/mythtv/ for .upgrade only to find it didn't exist. Then I checked for .configure. OH NO! Actually, I used 4 other letters. What to do, what to do?

Well, I search and found this. The problem was I didn't have a restore file. So, I figured what would happen if I did this:
? The long string I got when I tried to recreate the volume. I ran recreate again and I got my volume back! I tried mounting it, but it wouldn't mount. More searching...

I than came across this! I read it and decided to try to fsck the volume, so off I went...
As the volume is almost 900 gigs, off I went to sleep. I woke up the next morning and mounted the volume. It mounted! I did an ls of /myth and I had lost+found. I did an ls of lost+found and saw:


I looked through the directories and saw my data! But was it all there? I did a df -h and sure enough, it reported what I expected. So, I then went back to the configuration terminal and finished the configuration. After this was done, I existed mythfrontend. I figured out which directory contained what and moved it from lost+found/#6817 (for instance) to /myth/video and so on and so forth. Despite formatting a large chuck of my volume group and I was to recover! Nice!

I thought you were supposed to save the scary ghost stories for Halloween... Now I'm going to be up half the night wondering if my personal backup procedures are good enough...

Hi,

That would send most folks back for the SECOND pitcher of margaritas!

Glad you were able to recover
Mike

Indeed, great work, Cecil.

Thanks! If I was going to head back, it would have been for the bottle and shot glass.

Great success story. I've had some headaches with LVM...

I find the beginning of your story funny as well. I find myself in the same situation so many times. It's late at night, I've finished off a six pack, and something isn't working right. I will bang my head against it for hours trying to fix a problem. The really frustrating part is when I finally give up and when I wake up the next morning I find a silly mistake that likely would not have gone missed if I wasn't tired/inebriated...

Late nights and technology don't mix

Except for when you solve the problem that night, damn that feels good...

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