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<P><FONT SIZE=2>This and dump/restore should work.<BR>
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Make sure the amount free in the snapshot is greater then the amount used though because it will double the snapshot usage.<BR>
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-Ross<BR>
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From: centos-bounces@centos.org <centos-bounces@centos.org><BR>
To: CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org><BR>
Sent: Mon Apr 14 00:23:21 2008<BR>
Subject: Re: [CentOS] merge an lvm snapshot back<BR>
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On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:59:20PM -0600, Joseph L. Casale alleged:<BR>
> >He wants to restore the real LV to the state it was in at the time one of<BR>
> >the snapshots was taken.<BR>
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> Nah :)<BR>
> I want to sanp a volume, mount the snap, do my `stuff`, if I like it, I can merge into the primary copy and continue or dump the snap and go back...<BR>
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> That would be so very usefull! I know I can dd out the snap but that so not elegant (and slow)!<BR>
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Use rsync to copy the changes to the lv?<BR>
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Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin<BR>
University of Southern California<BR>
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