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olavmrk / lvm-daily-snapshot.sh

Created December 11, 2013 13:24

A script to take daily snapshots of a LVM volume.

	#!/bin/bash

	KEEP_DAYS=15
	VG="vg" # LVM volume group we are snapshoting
	LV="data-volume-name" # Name of LVM-volume to take a snapshot of
	BACKUP_PREFIX="backup-volume-prefix-" # Prefix of snapshot volume name.
	SIZE=40G # Amount of disk space to allocate for the snapshot


	# Create new snapshot