[SATLUG] etc and home in version control

Wayne Walker wwalker at bybent.com
Sun Nov 11 10:26:00 CST 2007


On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 10:54:18PM -0600, Daniel J. Givens wrote:
> Pardon me if I'm misunderstanding LVM snapshots, but doesn't each snapshot 
> has to have enough space to keep the changes that occur on the original 
> after the point in time that the snapshot was created. If my first scenario 
> were the case, I would only need 60G of space for those three snapshots. If 
> the second were the case, I would be sinking 120G.
That is my understanding.  I've not used rolling snapshots, just aware
they exist.

> I've never heard of using snapshots for anything other than running a 
> single backup job. This is intriguing and I would like to learn more, so 
> any further information you might be able to give or point me in the 
> direction of, I would really appreciate it!
>
> Daniel
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