Am 2013-02-01 10:56, schrieb Bob Vickers: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> >> I would also like to see improved scripts, I have the issue at one >> client that the LVM-snapshots aren't correctly removed sometimes ... >> that leads to non-working backups and dozens of lurking snapshots ... >> > > I had a lot of problems with LVM snapshots that would not go away, so I > wrote a script deleteLV that repeatedly waits a little while then tries > again. This has worked fine, though i have a suspicion that SuSE fixed > the bug I was working round at exactly the same time as I installed my > script! > > The script deleteLV is appended to this message in case anyone finds it > useful.
Thanks for sharing, Bob! I saw these issues with Gentoo Linux as well, so it might not be Suse-specific. The server in question has recently been upgraded to a more recent kernel and newer lvm2-userspace tools, I haven't seen the non-deleted LV-snapshots since then. I will take a look at your script and how I could fit it into my scheme, at first glance I think I have to figure out how to select the snapshot as it changes name every day. But that shouldn't be that hard ;-) Thanks, Stefan
