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From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com>
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marcin.kaluza@comarch.pl wrote:
> There's another subject I'd like to raise here - snapshot cloning.
> Since we use snapshots for copying our (large) oracle databases for
> development and crash-test(especially crash test:) purposes, we needed to
> come up with a way to clone snapshots.
> 
> By the way - it's a cool way to copy databases and it's being used in
> solaris/zfs.

Zfs has a send/receive with an incremental mode for remote cloning.  Is 
there anything like that for lvm?

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