-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jean-Philippe Villeneuve wrote: > I would like to know if I can backup all my system partitions(ROOT > included) using a snapshot? Depends on what you mean by "backup [...] using a snapshot". If you mean taking a snapshot, then mounting it somewhere and pointing your backup software to that mount point, then unmounting and deleting the snapshot after the backup is done, then yes, it should work fine. If you mean taking a snapshot and leaving it around forever *as* the backup, then that will work -- but the more backups you have, the slower LVM gets (currently). This is because of the copy-on-write code: every time the root logical volume changes, all of the snapshots need to be updated. If you only have one or two snapshots, this isn't so bad, but if you had (say) 20, writing to your real root LV would slow to a crawl. There is some code hanging around somewhere that I *think* is supposed to handle this better, but I don't know the status... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIag79S5vET1Wea5wRA6aRAKCuFkT9BXlmtiyke1bFPw5CJYGtRQCeI27D ++3wT6+y0d3oYjmxEVA2NmY= =1UlT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
