Charles Marcus wrote:
On 5/1/2008 2:15 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:Why? What value is the old snapshot at this point?? It holds
(a copy of)
all of the changes to your original (snapshotted) volume, so I imagine it would be pretty important to most people?I'm not really understanding all the inner-workings of LVM, but now I can see why using a ram disk for an LVM snapshot might not be a very good idea for this one reason - it won't survive a reboot...You just had a system reboot in the middle of a snapshotted backup so all you need to do is get the system up, redo another snapshot and retake your backup. I'm not interested in the old snapshot.I would be... but thats just me...
It's like yesterday's newspaper. Why do you need to keep it? Gerry