[linux-lvm] Backuping "special" snapshots

Bryn M. Reeves breeves at redhat.com
Wed Oct 3 11:25:33 UTC 2007


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Marc Patino Gómez wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I try kpartx and it's so cool, but I can't make snapshots of
> /dev/vg00/lv00p1 ... so I can't solve the problem of making backup
> without stopping the Virtual Machine.
> 
> Any advice?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marc
> 

Sorry, I thought that lv00 was the snapshot. Just create a snapshot of
it (e.g. lv00-snap) and run kpartx against that instead.

Cheers,
Bryn.

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