How do I use mdadm to keep a recoverable snapshot when performing updates?
Issue
- performing updates
- need quickly recoverable backup to use for backing out of updates/changes
- LVM snapshot is not an option
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- RAID1 array on 2 local disks using Software RAID (mdraid)
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