From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m0IAcbPb001345 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:38:37 -0500 Received: from seanic27.net (w27-7.dnslinks.net [216.12.218.108]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id m0IAc64R009147 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:38:07 -0500 From: Rahul Sahadevan In-Reply-To: <1199426489.3844.14.camel@rahul> References: <1199426489.3844.14.camel@rahul> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:07:55 +0530 Message-Id: <1200652675.32292.53.camel@rahul> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: Snapshot - Commit and Rollback Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Hi Group, I have posted this mail regarding the SNAPSHOT operations in LVM2. If anyone has any clue or comments please put forward. I am deliberately waiting for a reply from this group. regards, Rahul On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 11:31 +0530, Rahul Sahadevan wrote: > Group, > I am using LVM2 for my volume management and its working very fine. > Last day i try to take backup of the volumes using snapshot feature > available. I have following queries regarding the snapshot working. > After the snapshot is taken is there any way to update the contents > (COMMIT) of the same snapshot with the changed contents in the share in > a future point of time. > Also is there any feature like ROLLBACK to revert back the volume > content with the contents of the nth snapshot. > As per now i have to store multiple snapshots for every changes > happening in the volume, which is almost like wasting a hell lot of > space. > If anyone put light on these and let me know where to refer to get more > details on this will be highly appreciable. > > Thanks in advance. > > regards, > Rahul