[CentOS] How do you backup a LVM LV?
Alain Spineux
aspineux at gmail.com
Thu Dec 13 23:07:44 UTC 2007
On Dec 13, 2007 12:05 AM, Christian Nygaard <christiannygaard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a virtual machine in a Xen LV, that I would like to backup from hostA
> to hostB
> because hostA is software broken. How do I copy and recreate that LV on
> hostB?
Create an identicaly sized LV on machine B.
Use lvdisplay to get the size.
Then using ssh and dd :
from hostA :
# dd if=/dev/yourVG/yourLV | ssh hostB dd of=/dev/yourVGB/yourLVB
Regards
>
> Greets,
> Chris
>
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Alain Spineux
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