From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4CAB480A.8050906@cfl.rr.com> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 11:45:14 -0400 From: Phillip Susi MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4CAB14C9.7040707@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4CAB14C9.7040707@redhat.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] moving an LVM as an ISO can be moved 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: sugupta@redhat.com, LVM general discussion and development On 10/5/2010 8:06 AM, Sunil Gupta wrote: > Use vgexport or snapshots. but if you are using the removable media then > use any backup device disk tape etc. vgexport is to remove a physical volume from the set, while leaving any logical volumes it holds in place. It sounds like the OP does not want to do that, but rather copy a volume over the network. > --Sunil > > Tapas Mishra wrote: >> Can an LVM be copied or transferred to some remote server in a similar >> fashion as I can do with ISO. >> I copy the ISO at one one place to some other location and on the >> second location I can mount this ISO >> as a loopback device and do what ever I want. >> Is similar thing possible with an LVM. This is unrelated to LVM but if you want to image a disk volume you do so the same way as with a cd/iso image: use dd.