On 30.01.2013 22:48, David Nalley wrote:
As long as you realize that these are 'crash consistent' snapshots,
then yes. I personally dislike using the term 'backup' for snapshots -
it's certainly not a method I'd use to backup data that was important
to me.
--David
Crash consistent can be great when you don't have anything else. :-)
Plus another advantage of a full snapshot is that there's no I/O cost
in maintaing it vs the changes in "master", like it is with the e.g. lvm
snapshots. So there are advantages and disadvantages..
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