Hi, Darin: Darin Perusich wrote: > hello, > > is anyone using amanda, www.amanda.org to dump lvm's out there? i'm > trying to dump a volume and when it gets to the volume it just hangs > there. the filesystems are reiserfs so i'm using tar to preform the > dumps. i'm able to successfully dump the other filesystems. > > i've been using amanda to dump volumes created with Sun's Solstice Disk > Suite. all you need to do is specify the path to the block device, in > this case i'm using /dev/volume_group/logical_volume. the only > difference is under solaris you can use ufsdump. > While I don't use LVM on production systems, I did a test run with LVM 1.0 on a 2.2.19 kernel (a Red Hat 6.2 based box). I worked just OK regarding Amanda. Indeed, since Amanda is nothing more than a wrapper around your current backup tool of choice I would look for: a/ A config mistake b/ Some problem with your tool: here I'd look for problems regarding the truple LVM/tar/ReiserFS. Under these asumptions, can you properly tar those volumes undependant from Amanda? -- SALUD, Jesús *** jesus_navarro@promofinarsa.es ***
