Strahil <hunter86_bg@yahoo.com> writes:
Another option is to create a snapshot, backup the snapahot and merge the disks (delete the snapshot actually). Sadly that option doesn't work with Databases, as you might inyerrupt a transaction and leave the DB in inconsistent state.
Yet another reason to do it from inside the VM. What I do (on systems that have a running database) is to run a "flush" operation to sync the database to disk, and then from within the flush operation I create an LVM snapshot, and then I backup off the snapshot. If I'm not running a database, then I just create the snapshot directly.
Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov
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