>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 Thank you Markus! I forget "dd", it really is a good way to do a simple block-level backup, :) but it'll be great if there's a tool, that supoorts block-level increment backup.... Rocky _______________________________________________ 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/
