[CentOS] merge an lvm snapshot back

Sun Apr 13 16:07:32 UTC 2008
William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>

On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 15:04 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> William L. Maltby wrote:
> > IIRC, you don't have a real snapshot on the LV ATM. The snapshot LV only
> > contains files that were chang(ed/ing) while the snapshot volume was
> > "attached" during the backup.
> 
> That does not mean you cant use the snapshot, as long as you are ready 
> to live with the fallouts of such a move ( and have enough space 
> allocated )

Right. I started to say something about that earlier (I have an
automated b/u script I wrote way-back-when that takes advantage of the
snapshot facility) but decided that mentioning that to the OP might lead
to some unexpected hardships for him/her. I decided that just letting
h{im | er } know that it didn't have the full FS was a better choice of
information to pass on.

And in all honesty, it's been so long since I read up on it (vers 1,
IIRC) and looked at the script, I really didn't feel qualified to
suggest anything useful with any certainty.

-- 
Bill