This document describes the installation of Debian Jessie via debootstrap on a Logical Volume which in turn is installed on a Software Raid managed by mdadm. The partition table will be gpt with grub2
Please note that this doc is primarily for my personal use but I want so share it with the community. If you have any amendments please just leave me a note or send me a pull-request.
Motivation
When operating large virtual machines, there is a need a making backups with minimum downtime. My strategie here is to shutdown the vm (like a Windows Server on KVM) to have them in a consistent state. Then I create a LVM snapshot and start the machine again.
This gives me the time to write the im