From: "Dan Kegel" <dank@kegel.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Snapshot of a Snapshot
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:39:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a71bd89a0802290639t34ee72e7q4379df51e392b900@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A374F37068535C46BFCF8D48CF29AA7FA60045@zen.zetex.com>
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 3:27 AM, Karl Wagner <kwagner@zetex.com> wrote:
> I was just wondering if there was a plan to add 'Snapshot of a Snapshot'
> functionality to LVM2? If so, is there any timescale on it?
>
> This would be a very useful feature, especially in a Xen environment.
>
> Also, is there an easy way to backup and restore a snapshot? My scenario
> is that I am running several Xen DomU's (Virtual machines, 4 of them to
> be precise) from snapshots of a base image. However, if one dies (eg the
> snapshot overflows, something which should not happen again but just in
> case...) and I recreate the snapshot and restore the backup image I
> took, it fills the snapshot up.
It sounds like you could use a 'revert to snapshot' feature.
Is that right?
- Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-29 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-29 11:27 [linux-lvm] Snapshot of a Snapshot Karl Wagner
2008-02-29 14:39 ` Dan Kegel [this message]
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2008-03-03 9:13 Karl Wagner
2008-03-03 9:25 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-03-09 23:37 ` Lars Ellenberg
2008-03-07 11:19 Karl Wagner
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