Snapshots are a "point in time" image of a file system, that is created extremely quickly. You would use this to do several things. Backups is probably the most common, You "snap" a busy FS and then do a backup of the snap. On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 07:13, Chadley Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 16 September 2004 03:44, James Knott wrote:
Danny Sauer wrote:
Michael wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Why logical volume?' on Wed, Sep 15 at 16:01: What are the snapshots, and how do they benifit the volume? also what is a scratch. I have created both and I can't see the purpose of them.
Thanks
Actually, one good way, is iSCSI, which uses IP to connect storage. Your drives could be anywhere that's reachable with IP.
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