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Re: Partition image on the fly



tomlobato wrote:
> 
>   It is possible to make partition image on the fly? With the system (*Linux 
> server) running? 
> 
>   I think in the aproach: At midnigth (less system use), the script remounts 
> partition readonly by some minutes while put the output of 'dd if=/dev/...' 
> to a file in another HD on the same machine. Some word? Some trouble in do 
> so? 

Another approach would be to have your partition in an LVM volume and
then use the snapshot facility (i.e. backup the snapshot and without
having to remount the actual partition as read-only.) LVM snapshots are
very cool. :-)


-- 
George Borisov

DXSolutions Ltd

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