On 10/5/2010 8:06 AM, Sunil Gupta wrote: > Use vgexport or snapshots. but if you are using the removable media then > use any backup device disk tape etc. vgexport is to remove a physical volume from the set, while leaving any logical volumes it holds in place. It sounds like the OP does not want to do that, but rather copy a volume over the network. > --Sunil > > Tapas Mishra wrote: >> Can an LVM be copied or transferred to some remote server in a similar >> fashion as I can do with ISO. >> I copy the ISO at one one place to some other location and on the >> second location I can mount this ISO >> as a loopback device and do what ever I want. >> Is similar thing possible with an LVM. This is unrelated to LVM but if you want to image a disk volume you do so the same way as with a cd/iso image: use dd. _______________________________________________ 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/