[DRBD-user] Extracting Partition from DRBD Logical Volume

Саша Александров shurrman at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 21:31:43 CET 2014

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


Hi Aaron.

I just use separate small LVs as metadisks...
This has big advanture: if something goes wrong I can always use drbd-data
volume as a regular block device.


2014-03-19 23:59 GMT+04:00 Aaron Clausen <mightymartianca at gmail.com>:

> I'm using DRBD 8 and LVM for a number of KVM guests. Each guest is its
> own LVM, and I have DRBD 8 set up to have its metadata in the
> partition.
>
> I would like the ability to grab an LVM image of a guest partition for
> backup, but want to do so without the metadata (in case I need to
> restore the guest on a stand-alone server without DRBD). Is there a
> way via dd or some other tool to extract just the virtual drive and
> not DRBD's metadata?
>
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> Aaron Clausen
> mightymartianca at gmail.com
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С уважением, ААА.
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