Block-device snapshots with blksnap

If they've never worked outside of a computer department, if they've never lived in the end-user world, then they're like politicians - they know how things SHOULD be done, they've just never tried to do it, and they're surprised when the "should" is totally impractical or counter-productive.

The mainframe culture writ large in the IT department ...

Cheers,
Wol