On Friday 20 Aug 2010 10:23:39 Farmol SPA wrote: > TOPDIR resides on an LVM volume. I know about snapshots but I've never > tried them in practice. > > Is it difficult? How could I take a snapshot of a volume and put it on > another disk (external USB device not LVM)?
It's easy. I've done it on two of our BackupPC servers, and have a weekly dump of the BackupPC filesystem between them. Documented here: http://www.tolaris.com/2010/04/23/using-lvm-to-make-a-live-copy-of-a-backuppc- pool/ Regards, Tyler -- "I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way -- by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!" -- Richard Feynman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
