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backup-with-filesystem-snapshots: clarify archive
Clarify the wording of the "Archive a Snapshot" section. A user encountered some confusion today around this. Signed-off-by: Sam Kleinman <samk@10gen.com>
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Archive a Snapshot
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After creating a snapshot, mount the snapshot and move the data to
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After creating a snapshot, mount the snapshot and copy the data to
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separate storage. Your system might try to compress the backup images as
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you move the offline. The following procedure fully
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archives the data from the snapshot:
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you move the offline. Alternatively, take a block level copy of the
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snapshot image, such as with the following procedure:
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The above command sequence does the following:
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- Ensures that the ``/dev/vg0/mdb-snap01`` device is not mounted.
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- Ensures that the ``/dev/vg0/mdb-snap01`` device is not mounted. Never
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take a block level copy of a filesystem or filesystem snapshot that is
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mounted.
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- Performs a block level copy of the entire snapshot image using the ``dd``
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command and compresses the result in a gzipped file in the

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