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From: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>,
	"Davis, Matthew" <Matthew.Davis.2@team.telstra.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] how to copy a snapshot, or restore snapshot without deleting it
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 10:45:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <29ace3ab-dbc7-ec32-867e-c3c875c79851@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MEAPR01MB5029BFA4227BCA2DD60501A5C2840@MEAPR01MB5029.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com>

Dne 10. 01. 19 v 7:23 Davis, Matthew napsal(a):
> Hi Marian,
> 
> I'm trying to do it with thin snapshots now. It's all very confusing, and I can't get it to work.
> I've read a lot of the documentation about thin stuff, and it isn't clear what's happening.
> 
> I took a snapshot with
> 
>      sudo lvcreate -s --name mySnap1 centos/root
> 
> Then I copied that snapshot with
> 
>      sudo lvcreate -s --name mySnap2 centos/mySnap1
> 
> When I try to restore mySnap1 it says:
> 
>      $sudo lvconvert --merge centos/mySnap1
>      centos/mySnap1 is not a mergeable logical volume
> 

Hi

Aren't you using some quite ancient version of lvm2 ?
You need to use lvm2 which does support thin volume merging

Regards

Zdenek

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-10  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-03  4:46 [linux-lvm] how to copy a snapshot, or restore snapshot without deleting it Davis, Matthew
2019-01-03  9:32 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2019-01-03 14:09 ` Marian Csontos
2019-01-10  6:23   ` Davis, Matthew
2019-01-10  9:45     ` Zdenek Kabelac [this message]
2019-01-14 22:44       ` Davis, Matthew
2019-01-15 10:49         ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-01-15 23:03           ` Davis, Matthew
2019-01-16 13:55             ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-01-17  1:12               ` Davis, Matthew
2019-01-17  9:21                 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-01-18  0:53                   ` Davis, Matthew
2019-01-18  9:34                     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-01-21 10:32                     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-01-28 11:49                       ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-01-30 23:58                         ` Davis, Matthew
2019-01-10 14:34     ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2019-01-11 19:29       ` Sarah Newman

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