https://www.system-rescue.org/lvm-guide-en/Making-consistent-backups-with-LVM/ does most/all of your needs. Snapshots..way cool. rsync, dd are as far as I went in my day. I backed up /home and /usr/local which were on there own partitions. ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx