>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati < >> assir...@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.
Let make things a bit more clear. You take the snapshot and make changes in the original logical volumes. If you want to revert the changes, you call lvconvert --merge, which will revert the logical volume to its original state. The name "merge" is somewhat misleading, I think. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/10903d979f9b1d7effbb67f8ca377404.squir...@nonada.if.usp.br
