On Tuesday 16 May 2006 12:59pm, Christian Reiter wrote: > Lamont R. Peterson schrieb: > > Convert to using LVM; then it'll be easy. > > ... > > LVM is a much better choice. Not just for backups, but it also makes it > > easier to manage your storage. > > But bear in mind that LVM-Snapshots aren't considered reliable at this > time. Where do you get that idea? What do you mean by, "aren't considered reliable"? You didn't think I meant to take a snapshot and call it a day, did you? No, absolutely not. You create a snapshot volume then mount that and back up the read only data in it. The goal is to get a backup you can restore from. You didn't think I was talking about using writable snapshots with LVM for basing multiple Xen VMs on, did you? Well, sorry for the confusion it that's the case. I was talking about read-only LVM snapshot LVs for doing backups. Hope that clarifies things a bit. -- Lamont R. Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Senior Instructor Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ] GPG Key fingerprint: F98C E31A 5C4C 834A BCAB 8CB3 F980 6C97 DC0D D409
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