-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup backuppc From: Tyler J. Wagner <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Farmol SPA <[email protected]> Date: Fri Aug 20 2010 12:48:15 GMT+0200 (ora Legale Europa Occidentale) > 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/
Thanks for this info! A question: the source logical volume and the snapshot one must reside in the same volume group for this feature to work? Alessandro
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