Recovering LVM from disk image

For a RAID NAS box, when the NAS box dies, the data on the drives are still intact. They can be retrieved in the following steps:

1. dd disks containing LVM to hard drive; # create images of hard drives
2. losetup /dev/loopx disks.img; # make images appear as loop devices on OS
3. partx -v -add /dev/loopx; # make partitions on the loopback devices available to OS
4. vgscan, vgimport -a; # to import Virtual Groups
5. vgdisplay; # showing imported VG names
6. vgchange -a y vgname; # to activate VG
7. fsck /dev/mapper/vgname; # to check file system of VG
8. fuseext2 -o ro -o sync_read /dev/mapper/vgname /mounting_point; # to mount the VG
9. rsync -av –progress /mounting_point/ /destination/

Then you will get everything at your destination, and then you can safely remove the images.