1. Introduction By creating a Logical Volume snapshots you are able to freeze a current state of any of your logical volumes. This means that you can very easily create a backup and once needed rollback to a original logical volume state. This method is very similar to what you already know from using Virtualization software such as Virtualbox or VMware where you can simply take a snapshot of entire virtual machine and revert back in case something went wrong etc. Therefore, using LVM snapshots allows you to take a control of your system's logical volumes whether it is your personal laptop or server. This tutorial is self-contained as no previous experience with Logical Volume Manager is required. 2. Scenario In this article we will explain how to manually create and restore logical volume snapshots. Since we do not assume any previous experience with Logical Volume Manager we will start from a scratch using a dummy physical hard drive /dev/sdb with size of 1073 MB....