> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com] > On Behalf Of David Brown > Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 5:49 AM > To: LVM general discussion and development > Subject: Re: Enterprise Backup Software with good support for > LVM > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 01:43:17PM -0500, Steffen Plotner wrote: > > > I would like to add that creating backups of LVM snapshots is sensible, > > as the data is in a crash-consistent state. Today's operating systems > > can definitely handle this type of state. I have developed scripts that > > effectively netcat contents from LVM snapshots to a remote machine > > (either into another logical volume or simply a file). > > One other thing to point out. Any backup utility that is based on > timestamps, as opposed to a file database, is going to occasionally miss > changes made between the creation of the snapshot and the invocation of > the > backup. Not necessarily LVM specific, However, I am sure it will work with snapshots, we have great success with backuppc - uses tar and/or rsync and some clever compression/hardlinking to create easy to restore backups with archiving all onto one partition. If you haven't already, then check it out. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ Allen Bolderoff _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
