Thanks Trevor, This is all way over my head. I was searching and found a post with someone that had a similar situation. and one of the suggestions was to edit the /etc/fstab file.. and then modify the Grub file to force the system to boot from the directory that I restored all the files/folders to.. Here is my fstab file. This directory has all the files/folders from the restored backup.
/dev/mapper/vg_zimbra-lv_home /home
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Here is results of df -h is shows that the /home directory location has 1.2 TB of space and the entire restored backups are taking up 1.1 TB
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couldn't I just modify the grub.conf file and point to the /home directory
Here is the grub.conf file with in the /home directory where the restored backups are...
I would think I could just change the paths of the kernel and root... There are lots of entries. I am guessing the person that set this up loaded several kernels. I am thinking the 2nd entry ( highlighted in RED) was the last one it successfully booted from.
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_mail-lv_root
# initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/vda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title CentOS (2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.centos.plus.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.centos.plus.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_mail2-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_LVM_LV=vg_mail2/lv_root rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=128M KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM
initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.centos.plus.x86_64.img
title CentOS (3.19.0-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-3.19.0-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_mail2-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_LVM_LV=vg_mail2/lv_root rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=128M KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM
initrd /initramfs-3.19.0-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.img
title CentOS (2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_mail2-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_LVM_LV=vg_mail2/lv_root rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=128M KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM
initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64.img
title CentOS (2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.centos.plus.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.centos.plus.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_mail2-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_LVM_LV=vg_mail2/lv_root rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=128M KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM
initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.centos.plus.x86_64.img
title CentOS (2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.centos.plus.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.centos.plus.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_mail2-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_LVM_LV=vg_mail2/lv_root rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=128M KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM
initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.centos.plus.x86_64.img
title CentOS (2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_mail2-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_LVM_LV=vg_mail2/lv_root rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=128M KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM
initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64.img
title CentOS (3.13.1-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-3.13.1-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_mail2-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_LVM_LV=vg_mail2/lv_root rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=128M KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM
initrd /initramfs-3.13.1-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.img
title CentOS (3.12.5-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-3.12.5-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_mail2-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_LVM_LV=vg_mail2/lv_root rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=128M KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM
initrd /initramfs-3.12.5-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.img
title CentOS (3.10.10-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-3.10.10-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_mail2-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_LVM_LV=vg_mail2/lv_root rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=128M KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM
initrd /initramfs-3.10.10-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.img