[linux-lvm] snapshot questions

Magosányi Árpád mag at bunuel.tii.matav.hu
Fri Nov 2 12:16:02 UTC 2001


A levelezõm azt hiszi, hogy Kyle Hayes a következõeket írta:
> 
> We are considering using LVM to do database snapshots for backups.
> 
> I have some questions that the HOWTO's etc. do not seem to answer.
> My largest concerns are that we will end up with a read-only corrupt
> filesystem.  This seems to be a problem reported in the mailing lists.

I for myself ended up with the whole volume group rendered totally unuseable.
It seems to me that it is because a snapshot I did just to have some kind of
backup at least:)
Of course YMMV, and in case you loose your data, I will have some hints to 
recover;)

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