[linux-lvm] snapshots and backups

Thomas Garner thomas536 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 22 04:20:19 UTC 2006


Can anyone answer this?  Are LVM snapshots capable of being used for
multiple snapshots, for use as backups?

On 6/18/06, Shaun <mailinglists at unix-scripts.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at using snapshots to take a full backup.  I've been search
> around Google a bit and so far most of the how-to's I find are always
> creating a snapshot, then mounting it, copying the data, unmounting it and
> removing it.  My question is why are they doing this?  Is it because they
> assume they only need data from one area of the drive or is there a better
> reason for doing this?  I want to take a full backup and leave the snapshot
> incase I need to restore it quickly.
>
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> ~Shaun
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