11 Jul
2008
11 Jul
'08
11:53 a.m.
I have a Centos 5.2 fileserver running LVM2, ext3 and Samba. I want to periodically snapshot a filesystem and offer them as read only backups to my users. I'm looking for something similar to what's available on Netapp filers.
I am successfully able to create snapshots using LVM. But are there any performance issues in having multiple snapshots of the same filesystem at the same time?
Is there any other way i can offer filesystem snapshots to my users?
Thanks for any guidance!
- Raja