----- "Ben M." <[email protected]> wrote:

> BUT, according to 'man pvmove' it doesn't have a switch to leave a
> copy 
> behind, or the old extents in place for a fallback. That makes me a 
> little apprehensive about having something ready to roll back to in
> its 
> most current "data" state.

Right, it doesn't. To keep downtime minimal, you can shut down the windows 
guest, create an LVM snapshot of the guest's LV, boot the guest back up, dd 
from the snapshot to a new LV for your backup, remove the snapshot, and then 
pvmove. Be patient with pvmove, as it can take a while.

-- 
Christopher G. Stach II


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