On Friday 20 Aug 2010 10:23:39 Farmol SPA wrote:
> TOPDIR resides on an LVM volume. I know about snapshots but I've never
> tried them in practice.
> 
> Is it difficult? How could I take a snapshot of a volume and put it on
> another disk (external USB device not LVM)?

It's easy. I've done it on two of our BackupPC servers, and have a weekly dump 
of the BackupPC filesystem between them. Documented here:

http://www.tolaris.com/2010/04/23/using-lvm-to-make-a-live-copy-of-a-backuppc-
pool/

Regards,
Tyler

-- 
"I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by
understanding; they learn by some other way -- by rote, or something.
Their knowledge is so fragile!"
   -- Richard Feynman

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