[CentOS] merge an lvm snapshot back

Sun Apr 13 08:04:50 UTC 2008
William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>

On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 01:59 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> > So how does one accomplish this if say the snap is now deemed the copy of interest? I am hoping dd is not the only answer:)
> > 
> 
> well, just use it.
> 
> Also, your work flow is broken if your historic snapshots are now 
> production while the real physical LV isnt.( imho )

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.

Don't trust me though - read the docs to be sure. Last time I looked it
might have been vers 1.

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> 

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Bill