On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, W. Curtis Preston wrote:
> This is just about the only reason that you would do this with a host-based
> volume manager.  Making a volume snapshot doesn't allow you to mount it on
> another system, so about the only benefit you get it is available for an
> immediate restore.  It's a pity they're not taking advantage of that.

a) If you split diskgroups, you certainly can use it on another machine.
b) It's also available for backup without hitting the live file system's
disks for the reads.
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