LVM Snapshot. lvm -s -n SnapShotName /dev/VolumeGroup/SourceLogicalVolumeName you may need to pass -l or -L to give an initial size for the COW. (as for rebuilding on another machine, that would require shared storage or additional LVM tricks to export/import - or good old fashioned dd) that said, a more appropriate list to question is linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Fred van Zwieten <fvzwieten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there, > > I would like to know if there is something functionally equivalent to > NetApp's SnapMirror in the works or planning? It would require block > level access to a snap and the ability to rebuild (subvolumes > including it's) snap's on another machine. > > If not, what would be the best way to build something more or less > equivalent using existing tools? rsync-ing a snap seems the same, but > it isn't. First of all it 's file based, not very nice for DB's, and > you don't get the snap's on "the other side" the same. > > Fred > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
