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Re: Snapshot Program



> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <
> assirati@nonada.if.usp.br> wrote:
>
>> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 04:21:47PM +0000, Hélder Pinheiro wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >> Is there any program to do a kind of snapshots of my debian
>> >> installation?
>> >> Something that I can restore through CLI
>>
>
>
>> After you made the modifications, if you want to restore the previous
>> state, just delete the modified logical volumes and rename the snapshots
>> so they take place of the original logical volumes.
>> João Luis
>>
>>
> I thought when you wanted to incorporate the changes(data stored in
> snapshot) into the original volume you had to merge them(lvconvert
> --merge).  Is this incorrect?

No, this is the correct solutions and works also when the snapshot is
read-only.


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