On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:14:30PM +0800, Rocky Lee wrote: > >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.... Icremental backup would be good, from the kernel side all you'd need is a dm target that records which blocks have changed - anyone interested in coding this ? - Joe _______________________________________________ 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/
