You can copy with dd from the snapshot to another block device or a file. That file can be on the same computer or you can get it to another computer by using netcat, NFS, rsync etc. On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 19:10:54 -0400 John Holland <jholland@vin-dit.org> wrote: > It's been a while since I dealt with lvm snapshots but they are > available as I guess block devices somehow, you might have to google > to find out how to get the exact path to the snapshot. > > On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 21:47:05 +0200 > lee <lee@yagibdah.de> wrote: > > > John Holland <jholland@vin-dit.org> writes: > > > > > I think you can pipe output of dd on the source to netcat, going > > > to a netcat on the destination machine which is piped to dd > > > going to a device or file on that machine. > > > > Hm, assuming that the volume group resides on /dev/sda3, I would > > have something like 'dd if=/dev/sda3 ...'. That would read the > > partition rather than the volume group, and I'm not sure whether > > that would be the same or not in this case: How would I restore > > from such a backup? > > > > > > > -- John Holland jholland@vin-dit.org gpg public key ID 0x9551CF2D
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature