hansbkk AT gmail DOT com wrote:
> If you want
> to really minimize the downtime, then using LVM snapshotting is a good
> option.
>
> 1. shut down the service
> 2 take the snapshot
>    

Just an addition to this,

If using the XFS file system, snapshotting will cause LVM to preform an 
file system freeze, just before the snapshot.  No shutting down the 
service is needed.

Doug


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