mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx (Matthew Miller) writes: >> Well, it's not quite the same thing. You can't safely dump a live >> filesystem, making it unusable for me. Also it's far less granular >> than an archiver like tar or dar. > > Have you looked at making lvm snapshots and dumping those? LVM snapshots are not usably at the moment: for kernel 2.4 they work with a kernel patch only, and for kernel 2.6 they are marked as experimental which is confirmed by my experiences (kernel-panics on creation and manual cleanup required). Enrico
