[linux-lvm] Snapshots and disk re-use
Jonathan Tripathy
jonnyt at abpni.co.uk
Wed Feb 23 20:49:04 UTC 2011
> But to be useful, you need to write to one or the other. Using the origin as a
> (mostly) readonly "template" for many VM customers works efficiently with VMs
> running in snapshots. In that case, writes to the snapshots are just one
> write. You *could* consider the origin a "snapshot" in that case. But then
> you are defining "snapshot" to be the readonly branch, which is a different
> sense than how LVM uses the term.
>
This is really eye opening to the useful of LVM snapshots. I never once
considered to use them in this way :)
But back to my original question. Let me try and word it a bit better.
Give that I currently follow the current procedure for removing and
adding customers:
To remove customer: zero out customer LV, then remove LV
To add customer: create a new LV
And I want to run backups of a customer's LV using snapshots I just:
create a snapshot of the customer LV, then use rsync, then remove the
snapshot. Is there anything I should do to prevent cross-customer data
leakage?
Thanks
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