Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 schrieb Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom:
> On 01/04 09:51 , Paul Archer wrote:
> > [lvm snapshot]
Snapshots are stil on my Todo list and probably also a good approach to
backing up a BackupPc Server. I went for the stop-every-daemon and
dump-the-whole-disk solution because it w
On 01/07 07:47 , Les Mikesell wrote:
> Since it works at the
> partition image level it shouldn't have the usual problems with
> hardlinks and it might be possible to use the underlying tool against an
> lvm snapshot without having to shut down.
if you make an image of an LVM snapshot, you migh
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>> We are using LVM2 for our backuppc partition. How much disk space would
>> you estimate a snapshot would take for a partition containing ~700Gb of
>> data? The LVM partition itself is roughly ~1.4Tb in size.
>
> Snapshots should be sized based on how much dat
On 01/06 01:39 , Sean Carolan wrote:
> We are using LVM2 for our backuppc partition. How much disk space would
> you estimate a snapshot would take for a partition containing ~700Gb of
> data? The LVM partition itself is roughly ~1.4Tb in size.
Snapshots should be sized based on how much data
On 01/04 09:51 , Paul Archer wrote:
> If you are using lvm2 (which is pretty common, given the necessary
> single-filesystem size for backuppc), then you should be able to take a
> snapshot of the logical volume, and backup from that.
I've tried that with backing up to tape. Unfortunately, any d
> If you are using lvm2 (which is pretty common, given the necessary
> single-filesystem size for backuppc), then you should be able to take a
> snapshot of the logical volume, and backup from that.
We are using LVM2 for our backuppc partition. How much disk space would
you estimate a snapshot
3:31pm, Andreas Micklei wrote:
> Am Freitag, 4. Januar 2008 schrieb Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom:
>> On 01/03 09:46 , dan wrote:
>>> i doubt that dd will do much better than tar,
>>
>> With the backuppc data pool, dd'ing the disk partition is several times
>> faster than tar because it doesn't do all t
