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This doesn't work at scale. The IO performance with LVM is terrible. I lost a lot of money trying to implement this. Percona wrote Xtrabackup as a replacement for LVM.

Documentation:

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/02/05/disaster-lvm-...

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/02/24/xtrabackup-op...



The write performance with LVM is terrible.

LVM snapshots on read slaves or during times when you have sufficient write capacity work as advertised.




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