On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Sharif Ibrahim wrote: > I'm trying to do incremental backups with LVM by reading the COW > device from userspace but am having some trouble. Zumastor does this, and is open source. Maybe check how they do it. Their method might not be directly applicable, since they use a new snapshot format (for shared COW). -- Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. _______________________________________________ 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/