Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009
Administering volume
snapshots
This chapter includes the following topics:
■ About volume snapshots
■ Traditional third-mirror break-off snapshots
■ Full-sized instant snapshots
■ Space-optimized instant snapshots
■ Emulation of third-mirror break-off snapshots
■ Linked break-off snapshot volumes
■ Cascaded snapshots
■ Creating multiple snapshots
■ Restoring the original volume from a snapshot
■ Creating instant snapshots
■ Creating traditional third-mirror break-off snapshots
■ Adding a version 0 DCO and DCO volume
About volume snapshots
VxVM can take an image of a volume at a given point in time. This image is called
a volume snapshot.
See “Volume snapshots” on page 63.
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