From: malahal@us.ibm.com
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Using LVM Mirroring to obtain a usable backup
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:33:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090916203340.GA21276@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1253127828.3243.1.camel@delo.gdit>
Ambrogio De Lorenzo [ambrogio.de.lorenzo@alice.it] wrote:
> > snapshot may be a good fit in this case, but if you insist you can use
> > lvconvert to convert your linear volume to a mirrored volume. Once the
> > sync is complete, you can use the same lvconvert to convert the mirror
> > volume to a linear one.
> But with this I loose the secondary copy.
> It's not a good idea.
> Backup and destroy backup :-)
If that is on a single PV, you can disconnect it to avoid it being
allocated by LVM for other things. I think, taking a snapshot and coping
it somewhere as someone said is a good idea.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-16 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-16 13:59 [linux-lvm] Using LVM Mirroring to obtain a usable backup Ambrogio De Lorenzo
2009-09-16 15:05 ` André Gillibert
2009-09-16 16:47 ` Ambrogio De Lorenzo
2009-09-16 16:58 ` Brian J. Murrell
2009-09-16 19:15 ` Ambrogio De Lorenzo
2009-09-16 19:49 ` Brian J. Murrell
2009-09-16 20:03 ` André Gillibert
2009-09-16 20:22 ` Ambrogio De Lorenzo
2009-09-16 22:03 ` Kai Stian Olstad
2009-09-16 18:19 ` malahal
2009-09-16 19:03 ` Ambrogio De Lorenzo
2009-09-16 20:33 ` malahal [this message]
2009-09-17 10:05 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2009-09-17 15:06 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2009-09-17 15:34 ` Brian J. Murrell
2009-09-17 22:49 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2009-09-17 23:26 ` Les Mikesell
2009-09-18 0:58 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2009-09-18 1:51 ` Sven Eschenberg
2009-09-18 16:05 ` Mark H. Wood
2009-09-18 19:12 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2009-09-17 23:48 ` Brian J. Murrell
2009-09-18 1:55 ` Stuart D. Gathman
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