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Linux snapshotting issues [duplicate]

Is there any way to deal with incoming writes while a backup is in progress in linux. Example, you are writing to your sql database and lvm snapshotting at the same time. This will result in corrupted ...
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Should I be worried? Segfaults reported in syslog when merging LVM snapshot (reverting the original back to the snapshot)

I was just experimenting with snapshots in LVM on Ubuntu 12.10. I created a snapshot logical volume of 6.5 GiB, and after making some changes to the origin decided to merge the snapshot back in to ...
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Do LVM snapshots ultimately cause fragmentation?

I'm planning on using LVM in order to be able to take atomic snapshots of large files and rsync them to a remote site. What I'd like to know is whether there is any long-term impact on the main ...
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Temporary restore LVM snapshot of root

I have a snapshot of the root filesystem that I want to boot with - bring the machine into a state it was a few days ago, run some tests and then go back to where I am right now. I tried editing ...
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How much can the space allocated for an LVM snapshot be reduced?

I created an LVM snapshot, then I modified the original logical volume, and now I see that I probably allocated too much space to hold the snapshot. And I want to reclaim some free space by reducing ...
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Create Logical Volume Snapshot at boot and before mount

I'm using Kubuntu 11.10 and before I upgrade to 12.04, I want to make snapshots of my filesystems. Coming to think of that, I realized that it can be very useful to create snapshots of logical volumes ...