From: "Thomas Garner" <thomas536@gmail.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] snapshots and backups
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:20:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ef864c50606212120m2132d559gd41f2ce7d056a66b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7347a$3te$1@sea.gmane.org>
Can anyone answer this? Are LVM snapshots capable of being used for
multiple snapshots, for use as backups?
On 6/18/06, Shaun <mailinglists@unix-scripts.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at using snapshots to take a full backup. I've been search
> around Google a bit and so far most of the how-to's I find are always
> creating a snapshot, then mounting it, copying the data, unmounting it and
> removing it. My question is why are they doing this? Is it because they
> assume they only need data from one area of the drive or is there a better
> reason for doing this? I want to take a full backup and leave the snapshot
> incase I need to restore it quickly.
>
> --
>
> ~Shaun
>
>
>
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2006-06-18 8:51 [linux-lvm] snapshots and backups Shaun
2006-06-22 4:20 ` Thomas Garner [this message]
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