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 (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5M4KShX031078 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:20:28 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k5M4KJ7R030327 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:20:19 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id x66so230974pye for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:20:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9ef864c50606212120m2132d559gd41f2ce7d056a66b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:20:19 -0400 From: "Thomas Garner" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] snapshots and backups In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: 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"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development Can anyone answer this? Are LVM snapshots capable of being used for multiple snapshots, for use as backups? On 6/18/06, Shaun 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ >