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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 11:19:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090916181947.GB15438@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1253109566.5326.15.camel@delo.gdit>

Ambrogio De Lorenzo [ambrogio.de.lorenzo@alice.it] wrote:
> Hi all.
> I'm doing a big upgrade on my computer and I tryed to use lv mirroring
> to obtain a copy of my data before to do it.
> 
> As I do with LVM on other OS i thought that after mirroring one could
> chose to split the mirrored lv.
> 
> I can't find how to do it with LVM2 on Linux.

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.

Thanks, Malahal.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-16 18:20 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 [this message]
2009-09-16 19:03   ` Ambrogio De Lorenzo
2009-09-16 20:33     ` malahal
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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