Il 13-04-2017 14:59 Stuart Gathman ha scritto:
Using a classic snapshot for backup does not normally involve activating a large CoW. I generally create a smallish snapshot (a few gigs), that
will not fill up during the backup process.   If for some reason, a
snapshot were to fill up before backup completion, reads from the
snapshot get I/O errors (I've tested this), which alarms and aborts the
backup. Yes, keeping a snapshot around and activating it at boot can be
a problem as the CoW gets large.

If you are going to keep snapshots around indefinitely, the thinpools
are probably the way to go.  (What happens when you fill up those?
Hopefully it "freezes" the pool rather than losing everything.)


Hi, no need to keep snapshot around. If so, the classic LVM solution would be completely inadequate.

I simply worry that, with many virtual machines, even the temporary backup snapshot can fill up and cause some problem. When the snapshot fills, apart from it being dropped, there is anything I need to be worried about?

Thanks.

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