I too had the same question. However, I did think about mounting an iscsi volume and create a secondary LV on it to move the snapshot to. Other options would be to boot the server with something like clonezilla and the target machine with the same and do a direct copy that way. I am actually looking at moving our production backuppc machine to a Xen domu on top of a DRBD LVM so I can have fully redundant live failover. Plus that makes it just that much easier to move between machines if need be.
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, B. Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Tyler, > > However, for snapshotting to work, don't you have to have at least as much > space for the snapshot as you do for the original partition? I currently am > using nearly 60% of the VG just for backups, which is the root of the > problem. It wasn't apparent in my scanning of the article (I'll go back and > read for content in a bit). > > --b > > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Tyler J. Wagner <ty...@tolaris.com>wrote: > >> On Wednesday 21 April 2010 06:03:08 Tyler J. Wagner wrote: >> > I am currently in the process of doing this in two steps: >> > >> > 1. Moving the cpool to a partition with LVM, so as to be able to make >> > snapshot binary backups in future. >> > >> > 2. Copying the snapshot over the network to a backup server. >> > >> > I'll blog it soon and post here. In short, the fastest way to duplicate >> > your pool is: dd if=/dev/partition1 of=/dev/partition2 >> >> As promised, how to use LVM to clone a BackupPC pool. >> >> >> http://www.tolaris.com/2010/04/23/using-lvm-to-make-a-live-copy-of-a-backuppc- >> pool/<http://www.tolaris.com/2010/04/23/using-lvm-to-make-a-live-copy-of-a-backuppc-%0Apool/> >> >> Regards, >> Tyler >> >> -- >> "Before we got into this war there were countless 'military experts' >> and intelligence analysts that told us this was a good idea, that we >> had to do it. That presented their information, and were so terribly >> wrong. These people are still affecting public policy. They are still >> considered experts. I'm sorry, shouldn't there be a rule or law that >> says if you fuck things up so badly, you can no longer be considered >> an expert?" >> -- Tim Robbins >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> BackupPC-users mailing list >> BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >> Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net >> Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > >
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