Hello, I would like to add that creating backups of LVM snapshots is sensible, as the data is in a crash-consistent state. Today's operating systems can definitely handle this type of state. I have developed scripts that effectively netcat contents from LVM snapshots to a remote machine (either into another logical volume or simply a file). Steffen -----Original Message----- From: linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael Loftis Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 1:29 PM To: LVM general discussion and development Subject: Re: Enterprise Backup Software with good support for LVM --On November 29, 2005 12:03:39 PM -0600 Mark F <mfaine@knology.net> wrote: > Could someone suggest an Enterprise Backup package that has good > support for LVM (LVM2 in this case) on Linux (Specifically Suse Linux > Enterprise > 9) Most products I've seen say they support block level backups but > don't specifically say they support LVM. LVM provides a block level device. However you don't want to back up there anyway, you'll just end up with corrupt garbage. You need to back up at the filesystem level unless you're using your LVM LVs for Oracle or something similar in which case the backup software needs to support that by putting Oracle or the related application into the correct hot backup mode before attempting to directly read the LVM data, as well as backing up the transaction/redo logs. _______________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
