On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:02, Rocky Lee wrote: > Hi all, > > How to do block-level Backup with LVM? > "tar" seems like only support file-level backup. > any backup tool recommand? What exactly shall this be good for? I immediately thought about ISO files: CD-ROM images. You can do the very same to any block device: dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/tmp/disk.bak Of course, the drive mounted ot /tmp has to be larger than /dev/hda1, in this case... and it's filesystem should probably support files > 2GB. Compression might help, too. Not sure if that's whah you're looking for... Markus _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
