LVM snapshots on client, free space requirement?

[Dmitrius7]

Why don’t you use dattobd snapshots?

In my opinion, this is just an amazing tool for creating snapshots!
It doesn’t need to have LVM. You can use it almost at any file systems.

I wrote about it here:

Image Backup Server

Hello! In order to create LVM snapshot you need to have free extents (PE blocks) in volume group at the client. As we see in you log you don’t have free extents (0 extents, needs to be larger). Therefore UrBackup could not make LVM snapshot. For check free extents use this commands: sudo vgdisplay ... Free PE / Size 2559 / <10.00 GiB For fix it: You can reduce the lvm volume for have free extents or you can use dattobd snapshots instead LVM snapshots (I prerefere use dattobd). For…