Dne 21. 12. 21 v 15:44 Tomas Dalebjörk napsal(a):
hi
I think I didn’t explain this clear enough
Allthe lvm data is present in the snapshot that I provision from our backup system
I can guarantee that!
If I just mount that snapshot from our backup system, it works perfectly well
so we don’t need the origin volumes in other way than copying back to it
we just need to reanimate it as a cow volume
mentioning that all data has been changed
the cow is just referencing to the origin location, so no problem there
All our data is in the cow volume, not just the changes
just to compare
if you change just 1 byte on every chunksize in the origin volume, than the snapshot will contain all data, plus some meta data etc.
That is what I talk about here.
So how do I retach this volume to a new server?
as the only argument acceptable argument by the lvconvert is vg/s1 ?
That assumes that vg/s1 is present
so how to make it present?
Hi
As said in my previous post - the 'format' of data stored on COW storage
(which is the 'real' meaning of snapshot LV) does NOT in any way resembles the
'normal' LV.
So the COW LV could be really ONLY use together with 'snapshot' target.
The easiest way how to 'copy' this snapshot to normal LV is like this:
lvcreate -L size -n newLV vg
dd if=/dev/vg/snapshotLV of=/dev/vg/newLV bs=512K
(so with 'DD' you copy data in 'correct' format)
You cannot convert snapshot LV to 'normal' LV in any other way then to merge
this snapshot LV into your origin LV (so origin is gone)
(lvconvert --merge....)
You can also 'split' snapshot COW LV and 'reattach' such snapshot to other LV
- but this requires rather good knowledge about whole functioning of this
snapshotting - so you know what can you do and what can you expect. But I'd
likely recommend 'dd'.
You cannot use 'splitted' COW LV for i.e. filesystem - as it contains 'mixed'
snapshot metadata and snapshot blocks.
Old snapshot meaning was - to take 'time consistent' snapshot of LV which then
you can use for i.e. taking backup....
Regards
Zdenek
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