On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Think of the snapshot functionality this way. You're running some > application, and a new version comes out. You're thinking about > upgrading, but you don't want to mess up your production environment. > If you take a snapshot before you start the upgrade process, you > essentially have a point that you can rollback to, in case the upgrade > goes badly. Once (and if) the upgrade goes smoothly, you can delete > the snapshot, and the delta is merged into the existing image, and you > lose the ability to rollback, but you get your full speed back. Make > sense?
And when you take that snapshot you probably want to be at run level 1 (single user mode) to make sure that mysql and everything else isn't running. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney, Sr. [email protected] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
