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

[T. Prost]

Am Mittwoch, den 12.12.2012, 11:42 +0100 schrieb address@hidden: 
> On 12.12.2012 11:37, T. Prost wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 11.12.2012,
> 17:02 +0100 schrieb address@hidden: >> On 11.12.2012 15:26, T.
> Prost wrote: >>> Am Montag, den 10.12.2012, 19:01 +0100 schrieb GDR!: 
> >>>> 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 >>> >>> BTW: Are there known
> Problems when backing up a Windows partition with >>> duplicity ? >>>
> >> >> like how? with cygwin duplicity? under linux mounted or via
> device dump? > > mount in linux > backup to local external disk > > If
> problems aren't known as duplicityy-specific, can there be general >
> problems backing up or even reading a windows volume in this config and
> > environment ?
> 
> using ntfs-3g you should be quite safe. of course there is ntfs
> specific meta-data that will not/cannot be backed up by duplicity. but
> if you are concerned for your data, simply watch out for bugs in
> ntfs-3g, otherwise you should be fine.

... forgot to mention it was an FAT volume :-|

And as far as I can see, I see success in recovering the SNAPSHOT
directory, but reassembling the files in the multivol seems to produce
anything but the original files :-(

Sorry ...
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