From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5I8t5S9011521 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 04:55:05 -0400 Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5I8t3Xv004081 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 04:55:04 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Frt3e-0002CP-IK for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:55:02 +0200 Received: from ip68-5-63-223.oc.oc.cox.net ([68.5.63.223]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:55:02 +0200 Received: from mailinglists by ip68-5-63-223.oc.oc.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:55:02 +0200 From: "Shaun" Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 01:51:56 -0700 Message-ID: Sender: news Subject: [linux-lvm] snapshots and backups 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: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@redhat.com 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