[Discuss] LVM Re: A really interesting chain of functionality

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)]

On Sep 27, 2011, at 10:36 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> 
> I have two modern-day real-life uses for LVM:

I do use LVM for many things, but I don't use LVM snapshots.  I use either AFS's native capabilities (for networked home directories) or rsnapshot when I need proper snapshot or snapshot-like capabilities.


> Having become accustomed to ZFS send/receive, and the availability of
> snapshots to recover individual files instantly... I wanted to find a way to
> gain this functionality on systems using ext3 and dump for backups.  I
> settled on this:

Sounds to me like rsnapshot would be a good tool for some of this.

--Rich P.