[DRBD-user] Re: recommended way to do backups?

Sean allins at spawar.navy.mil
Mon Aug 15 17:20:10 CEST 2005

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Would it be better to then do the lvm snapshots against primary?
Sean

Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2005-08-15T07:21:26, Sean <allins at spawar.navy.mil> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Testing out methods of doing backups with the drbd-0.7x series. Looks 
>>like lvm snapshots is the way to go? Testing with reiserfs on the drbd 
>>volumes on top of lvm. It looks like lvm snapshots of secondary are 
>>working, question is: am I at risk of getting a corrupt lvm snapshot 
>>backup by using the secondary as the source?
> 
> 
> Yes, during resync.
> 
> 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
>     Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse.de>
> 




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