[Fedora-xen] How to Backup and Restore MBR within Logical Volumes?

[Veli-Pekka Kestilä]

Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> Thank you for your advice!
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> Is it called LVM snapshot?
Yes. That's what it's called for.

-vpk

PS. And please don't top post. It breaks the 'flow' of the post and 
makes it hard to read from the archives. Plus is against the list rules 
in some of the lists you are cross posting this (which is also bad). It 
would have been better to ask the question separatedly on different 
lists instead.
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>     Problem is that everything else than using dd can have it fair
>     share of problems. If the domU can't be offline too long, you
>     could allocate more space and use the lvm:s instant cloning
>     features (can't remember the name just now. ) and then use dd with
>     gzip or bzip to make the backup from this clone to keep the space
>     requirements minimum for the stored copies. And have minimum
>     disruption for the DomU.
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>     -vpk
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