Charles Marcus <CMarcus@media-brokers.com> wrote: > Would any kind souls be willing to share some basic scripts that can be > used to activate a snapshot, then 'do x' (this would be my rsnapshot > command), then release the snapshot? The part that I don't have a clue about > is how to check for errors - ie, did the snapshot activate ok? Did it > release ok?... Here's a few links I dug up a couple weeks ago on how people use lvm to back up mysql: http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2008/public/schedule/detail/252 http://forum.mysqlperformanceblog.com/s/m/782/ http://lenz.homelinux.org/mylvmbackup/ http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2006/04/25/plugin-based-backup-for-mysql/ http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/08/21/using-lvm-for-mysql-backup-and-replication-setup/ _______________________________________________ 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/