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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup backuppc
From: Tyler J. Wagner <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Cc: Farmol SPA <farmolspa AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri Aug 20 2010 12:48:15 GMT+0200 (ora Legale Europa Occidentale)
> 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/

Thanks for this info!

A question: the source logical volume and the snapshot one must reside
in the same volume group for this feature to work?


Alessandro

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