Re: [rdiff-backup-users] using rdiff-backup to backup block-devices

[Dominic]

Freisei wrote:
> is it possible to patch rdiff-backup to backup snapshots of lvm2-devices?
> Would be great to have incremental backups of my virtual machines.
>
> rdiff-backup /dev/vg0/backupdiff .
> Fatal Error: Source /dev/vg0/backupdiff is not a directory
>
> For rsync there is a patch called "--copy-devices"
That would be nice, but you can always mount the lvm snapshot and then 
back that up using rdiff-backup (then unmount and remove the snapshot) - 
my cron job does this daily.

Dominic