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Can LVM snapshots be writable? (and used for temporary experiments)
It seems that usually it is talked about snapshots as read-only. (In a scenario where one creates a snapshot, then does some experiments with the main volume, and then restores the old state by ...
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How to create a read-only snapshot in LVM, and then rollback to it after some work?
What are the commands to use in LVM in case I want to:
create a read-only snapshot of a volume;
(do some experiments in the volume);
and then rollback the volume to the snapshot?
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Incremental system backup and restore w/ rsync or rdiff-backup issues
I've been reading about using rsync and rdiff-backup to make incremental backups of my entire Linux system. I am planning to practise that by setting up a Linux system, making some changes to it, ...
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How to create a snapshot in btrfs, and then rollback to it after some work?
What are the commands to use in btrfs in case I want to:
create a (read-only) snapshot of a volume;
(do some experiments in the volume);
and then rollback the volume to the snapshot?
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Completely Backing Up Linux Installation
I come from Windows, and I've been getting into Linux a little bit lately. Trying to make that my default OS for now. I've wanted to try out a couple different flavors of Linux. I spent probably a ...
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Clone OS to a smaller drive
I would like to copy/clone/move my CentOS (which is on a 20GB hard drive) to a smaller hard drive (5GB)...
Can someone tell me how to do this?
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Restore overwritten /usr/local/bin [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Recovering deleted files on fedora
I accidentally overwrote my /usr/local/bin directory when installing something. Is there a way I can restore this directory? What can ...
