This and dump/restore should work. Make sure the amount free in the snapshot is greater then the amount used though because it will double the snapshot usage. -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org <centos-bounces at centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Sent: Mon Apr 14 00:23:21 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] merge an lvm snapshot back On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:59:20PM -0600, Joseph L. Casale alleged: > >He wants to restore the real LV to the state it was in at the time one of > >the snapshots was taken. > > Nah :) > 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... > > That would be so very usefull! I know I can dd out the snap but that so not elegant (and slow)! Use rsync to copy the changes to the lv? -- Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin University of Southern California Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080414/5931ad1b/attachment-0005.html>