[linux-lvm] Backuping "special" snapshots

Stuart D. Gathman stuart at bmsi.com
Wed Oct 3 15:16:15 UTC 2007


On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Marc Patino Gómez wrote:

> I try kpartx and it's so cool, but I can't make snapshots of 
> /dev/vg00/lv00p1 ... so I can't solve the problem of making backup 
> without stopping the Virtual Machine.

> Any advice?

Run kpartx on your snapshot.

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