* [linux-lvm] snapshots and backups @ 2006-06-18 8:51 Shaun 2006-06-22 4:20 ` Thomas Garner 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Shaun @ 2006-06-18 8:51 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-lvm 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [linux-lvm] snapshots and backups 2006-06-18 8:51 [linux-lvm] snapshots and backups Shaun @ 2006-06-22 4:20 ` Thomas Garner 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Thomas Garner @ 2006-06-22 4:20 UTC (permalink / raw) 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 <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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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