On Jun 25, 2013, at 6:02 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/24/2013 07:49 PM, aurfalien wrote: >> Freezing the fs looks to make the log zero. So assigning any >> device/file for the external log would work. My mistake was not >> making the log dev an LVM. However I don't if a log on an LVM would >> have worked anyways. > > It wouldn't work. If you snapshot a filesystem (XFS or Ext4) with an > external journal, you'll need to create a new one or modify the snapshot > to specify no journal. Ah, good to know. So the method I found, actually one suggested to me from the XFS list was the only solution. > I've started a project to handle these things automatically and make it > easier for everyone to make backups using snapshots. Initial work is > here, and I'll be picking it up again when I'm back from Prague. > > https://bitbucket.org/gordonmessmer/dragonsdawn-snapshot > > I'll be adding support for XFS, NetApp, and btrfs soon. Nice info man, thank you very much. - aurf