Rick, Thank you so much for your help. I tried your suggestion and still got the same error message. I decided to use the swap space on the other drive for now. I learned a lot about drive partitioning and logical volumes from this. [root@coresix archive]# /usr/sbin/pvcreate --uuid "ZLNZwN-beD3-SPWN-gm9f-t2hA-K8op-q1qs0K" --restorefile /etc/lvm/archive/sys_vg_00002.vg /dev/sdb2 File descriptor 11 left open File descriptor 12 left open File descriptor 13 left open Incorrect metadata area header checksum /etc/lvm/archive/sys_vg_00002.vg: stat failed: No such file or directory Couldn't read volume group metadata. Unable to read volume group from /etc/lvm/archive/sys_vg_00002.vg -ron-
