title: How to take the snapshot of lvm in AWS?
body: <p>I am fairly new to the AWS and have created some MySQL servers in Amazon EC2. Being cognizant, I have set up the DB server to store the data in an LVM mount point. Now for data retention I would like to take snapshots in regular basis (of course as a cron job). I have found that taking the snapshot of a whole disk is fairly easy. However, is there any way that would take the snapshot of the LVM as a whole. I mean is there any way of taking the snapshot of the mountpoint (like /data) instead of the volume that comprise the LVM (vol-xxxx, vol-xxxx, vol-xxxx)?</p>