Linux Hot Copy Picks Up Where LVM Snapshot Leaves Off

 

By Jerome M. Wendt on June 9, 2010 5:00 AM

Taking snapshots of applications is fast becoming a prerequisite for backup and recovery as well as a means for testing how well application fixes, patches and upgrades will work. But as more organizations adopt Linux as their preferred operating system to host their applications, they are also finding that the native Snapshot utility found in Linux's Logical Volume Manager (LVM) does not provide them with all of the functionality they need.

It is for these reasons that more organizations are taking advantage of the freely available R1Soft Linux Hot Copy as it picks up where LVM snapshot leaves off.

As I talk to users and storage providers alike, three themes keep emerging in terms of why they need snapshot technology and what they hope to accomplish with it.

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