Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?

[GDR!]

On 12/10/2012 10:10 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> On 10.12.2012 19:01, GDR! wrote:
>> On 12/10/2012 01:16 PM, George MacKerron wrote:
>>> Thanks Edgar. Yes, I'm already using LVM snapshots. I just wanted to then 
>>> back up the raw volume data, rather than mount the snapshot and back up the 
>>> files it contains.
>>
>> Just to justify what he's doing and point that "just mount it" is not a
>> good answer: he might want to back up a Windows partition that he's
>> using in KVM, or some other file system which has special attributes
>> which may be lost when mounting in Linux. I've been facing this problem
>> too, but came up with no solution.
>>
> 
> i see your point. but even in that case a snapshot would be the better 
> option. if there really is no way to keep all attributes* the he can still 
> dump the snapshot blockwise and backup that. the idea of a snapshot is that 
> it is in a valid state, synced without any half written files or such.
> not sure if lvm actually can assure the last bit for vm disk filesystems 
> though.
> 
> ..ede/duply.net
> 
> * i am sure none of these would be backed up by duplicity anyway ;)

So you're suggesting dumping it (eg. with dd) and backing up the dump
with duplicity?

My goal is to have remote, incremental backups of the volume, so just
snapshots aren't really enough.

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