Re: backing up LVM volumes
On Tue, April 27, 2010 00:33, Bernard wrote:
> Hi to Everyone !
>
> On my previous systems, I used to create overall backups of partitions,
> using 'SystemRescueCD'. This is no longer possible ever since 2007 that
> I have a RAID1 mirroring system on my Debian. SystemRescueCD does not
> backup LVM volumes, or, if it does, that must be a very new feature, and
> I have not found any doc on this.
>
> So, what should I do so as to backup my system ? I once tried 'dd', but
> I think I remember it took forever, and I don't really know whether I
> would have been able to use the resulting file to successfully restore
> the partitions if needed.
>
> Could someone suggest something that has been successfully tried ? Even
> 'dd' could do, if it is OK with LVM and if I get some details. I
> understand that I would have to unmount the partitions, but this is not
> a problem. I have two IDE mirrored disks of 200 GB each.
>
> Thanks in advance for your insights.
>
How about clonezilla (http://www.clonezilla.org/)? It supports LVM2 (not
1) and is based on Debian (I think you should be able to get what you need
from the Debian repositories anyway). But I'm not an expert :)
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