Swap out hard disk - my plan (or is there a better way)

I had a 2TB drive with data on being shared out with OMV, lots of shared directories, permissions, protocols configured.

The drive failed, so I installed a new drive and copied the data back from backups.

How can I make OMV configurations the same for the new drive? Hopefully without re-doing lots of manual work.

I was thinking I could maybe change the UUID of the new partition to be the same as the old one, then maybe, /maybe/ things might just happen automatically.

Does that seem sensible? Or, if not actually sensible, then at least workable?

I've swapped out the single disk filesystem (LVM) based disk, for a whole disk based on an md this time (once bitten, etc.), but AFAIK, OMV uses partition, or block device UUIDS upon which filesystems reside, not those of the underlying components.

Cheers for any advice

G

What I /actually/ did was amend the xml config to change the UUID from the old to the new for all UUID instances on the failed drive.

This seems to have worked.