Hello List I am a newbie to use LVM. When I read the HowTo on http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/LVM-HOWTO/snapshots_backup.html I tried to practice it with my Linux Box. Everything is fine but snapshot ! ============================================================== [root@met tmp]# lvscan lvscan -- ACTIVE Original "/dev/Vol1/LV1" [10 GB] lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/Vol1/LV2" [2 GB] lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/Vol1/LV3" [2 GB] lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/Vol1/LV4" [2 GB] lvscan -- ACTIVE Snapshot "/dev/Vol1/snapshot" [1.97 GB] of /dev/Vol1/LV1 lvscan -- 5 logical volumes with 17.97 GB total in 1 volume group lvscan -- 5 active logical volumes ============================================================== As the description, I make a Original LV device named /dev/Vol1/LV1, and then I make a snapshot device named "/dev/Vol1/snapshot" for /dev/Vol1/LV1 . So I try to put something for /dev/Vol1/LV1 # mount /dev/Vol1/LV1 /mnt/LV1 # mount /dev/Vol1/snapshot /mnt/snapshot [ I'm using ext3 ] # dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/LV1/test bs=1M count=10 and then # tar cf /dev/hda8 /mnt/snapshot or # tar cf /tmp/test.tar /mnt/snapshot but I can't see any file except the "/mnt/snapshot/lost+found" directory with the following command !! # tar xf /dev/hda8 or # tar xf /tmp/test.tar I don't have any idea to use this snapshot, any suggested references ? _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
