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Re: vzdump snapshot problem and workaround for it [message #11921 is a reply to message #11898]

Thu, 12 April 2007 02:29

oleka
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jarcher wrote on Wed, 11 April 2007 04:27

I am a little confused by the snapshot backup stuff. Is it creating an LVM snapshot that can later be mounted by a VPS, without first restoring?

VPS has nothing to do with LVM snapshot. Snapshot is done on HN (hardware node). vzdump creates a tar/tgz file which later can be used to restore the VPS with an original VEID or a different VEID (aka VPS cloning).

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Or is the idea just to create a temporary snapshot to avoid downtime, then backup the snapshot?

Snapshot is a part of LVM functionality and vzdump just uses it to do backup without VPS downtime. The script just does the procedure well explained in this article: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshots_backup.html

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		vzdump snapshot problem and workaround for it By: oleka on Fri, 06 April 2007 20:09
		Re: vzdump snapshot problem and workaround for it By: jarcher on Wed, 11 April 2007 08:27
		Re: vzdump snapshot problem and workaround for it By: oleka on Thu, 12 April 2007 02:29
		Re: vzdump snapshot problem and workaround for it By: jarcher on Thu, 12 April 2007 05:26
		Re: vzdump snapshot problem and workaround for it By: jarcher on Thu, 12 April 2007 06:23
		Re: vzdump snapshot problem and workaround for it By: jarcher on Thu, 12 April 2007 08:02
		Re: vzdump snapshot problem and workaround for it By: jarcher on Thu, 12 April 2007 08:48
		Re: vzdump snapshot problem and workaround for it By: oleka on Thu, 12 April 2007 17:30
		Re: vzdump snapshot problem and workaround for it By: jarcher on Sat, 14 April 2007 20:14
		Re: vzdump snapshot problem and workaround for it By: oleka on Tue, 17 April 2007 15:52
		Re: vzdump snapshot problem and workaround for it By: jarcher on Wed, 18 April 2007 06:37

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