[PVE-User] Backup VM online with snapshot LVM2

Stefan Sänger stsaenger at googlemail.com
Mon Apr 30 20:43:27 CEST 2012


Am 30.04.2012 09:26, schrieb Dietmar Maurer:
>> Am 25.04.2012 22:57, schrieb Stefan Sänger:
>> [...] Obviously there are some
>> preconditions to enable snapshots for /var/lib/vz. And of course the first is
>> that there is enough space left in volume group to create the snapshot.
>
> You just need to select a target (dumpdir) outside the snapshot - Or what is the question?

So vzdump just checks if target dir is on the same logical volume as the 
source?

Well - this may just be the answer to the original question, why in his 
setup no backup using snapshot was done.


regards, Stefan



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