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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup backuppc
From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com>
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
<backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon Aug 23 2010 17:42:43 GMT+0200 (ora Legale Europa Occidentale)
> On 08/20 11:02 , Mirco Piccin wrote:
>> i usually use an LVM volume (easy to extend) as TOPDIR.
>> In this case a FAST solution could be the lvm volume snapshot.
>> Of course, you need to save also BackupPC conf files.
> I've tried this in the past. Taking a snapshot of a live backuppc instance
> and then backing up the snapshot (especially to tape, like I tried) turns
> out to be murderously slow due to all the disk updates.

My ultimate setup (at the moment) is to dump the snapshot to an external
USB device keeping backuppc from waking up during this interval. It
takes about four hours to dump about 320GB (at 25MBps with a bs=2048k).


Alessandro

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