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Re: [BackupPC-users] Using rsync for blockdevice-level synchronisation of BackupPC pools

2009-09-07 07:41:26
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Using rsync for blockdevice-level synchronisation of BackupPC pools
From: Tino Schwarze <backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 13:38:02 +0200
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 06:35:16PM -0600, dan wrote:

[...]

> Thinking about the logistics in the method I have thought up a few hurdles.
> The source disks must remain unchanged during the entire sync.  

> You would need to either have a spare disk in a raid1 mirror that you
> could remove from the array and source from that, or you need to do
> some more hacking to bittorrent so that it could update the torrent
> file during the backup to reflect changes(lots of work i think)

You may use LVM snapshots for that purpose. If course, then your device
name might change or something like this and you need to work around
that.

Tino.

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