[fedora-virt] porting a disk from lvm to file

[Sven Lankes]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 05:48:37PM +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:

> Can I port this lvm vm-disk to file, for example with something like:
> dd if=/dev/vgname/lvname of=/directory_tree/filename
> and then copy "filename" to the other host and use it as a backing storage
> for a vm on it?

Yes. 

You can also do it in one step:

dd if=/dev/vgname/lvname bs=1024 | ssh username at otherserver.fqdn "dd of=/directory_tree/filename"

You might want to add -c to the ssh cmd to compress the data if the
connection between the servers is < 100 MBit/s.

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