Posted by peter

We know MySQL Backups using LVM are pretty cool (check out mylvmbackup) or MMM though it is quite typical LVM is not configurable properly to be usable for MySQL Backups.

Quite frequently I find LVM installed on the system but no free space left to be used as snapshot undo space, which means LVM is pretty much unusable for backups or required space is very small - created without good understanding on how much space do you need for undo.
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