[linux-lvm] Regarding full snapshot

Frode Mangset frodemed at start.no
Wed Nov 7 19:35:24 UTC 2007


Hello.

I managed to fill up a snapshot which (obviously) rendered it invalid and I know this topic 
has been touched several times. However, it was mentioned (post quoted below) that it might be 
possbile to recover some ciritcal files out of the snapshot.

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On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Hans C. Kaspersetz wrote:
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full.  I.e., you might be able to pull out a critical file if you had to, but
it is a mess, and you are usually better off just deleting the snapsnot.

P.S.  If you need to recover a critical file, unmount (or mount readonly) the
source LV immediately so it stops overwriting the snapshot.
...
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Can someone give me some hints about this? After a reboot the device-mapper fails to read the 
snapshot metadata.

best regards,
frodem

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