Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-05-09 Thread Chris Davies
Bernard wrote: > When I stated that 'SystemRescueCD' did not backup LVM volumes, > I meant that 'partimage' lacked this capability. As far as I know, > recent versions cannot do any better. I'm not familiar with partimage. Are you saying that it refuses to allow you to backup partitions with name

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-05-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 18:11 +0200, Bernard wrote: > Chris Davies wrote: > > Bernard wrote: [snip] > > > >> So, what should I do so as to backup my system ? I once tried 'dd', but > >> I think I remember it took forever [...] > >> > > > > Without the bs argument you would have been read

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-05-09 Thread Bernard
Chris Davies wrote: Bernard wrote: On my previous systems, I used to create overall backups of partitions, using 'SystemRescueCD'. This is no longer possible ever since 2007 that I have a RAID1 mirroring system on my Debian. You used to boot from SystemRescueCD and backup the partiti

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 29 April 2010 06:24:54 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/27/2010 02:51 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > For "normal" file operations, taking an LVM snapshot of the mounted > > filesystem and then making your backup from that should be sufficient. > > This should even work for postgreSQL

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/27/2010 02:51 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [snip] For "normal" file operations, taking an LVM snapshot of the mounted filesystem and then making your backup from that should be sufficient. This should even work for postgreSQL database files (though, it is not optimal). MySQL has a h

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Chris Davies
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > For "normal" file operations, taking an LVM snapshot of the mounted > filesystem and then making your backup from that should be sufficient. Agreed. I was pointing out that rsync isn't necessarily the appropriate solution in all cases. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:40:37 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Tuesday 27 April 2010 16:03:55 Celejar wrote: > > I've had to give up lvm snapshots totally as > > broken, primarily because of this (see my messages in the thread): > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=5

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 16:03:55 Celejar wrote: > I've had to give up lvm snapshots totally as > broken, primarily because of this (see my messages in the thread): > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549691 That is troublesome, probably to the point of actually being broken. It

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:44:27 +0100 Chris Davies wrote: ... > LVM provides a snapshot mode for this kind of requirement. It's not > stunning but it's usually sufficient. Perhaps usually, but in my use-case (and that of others) it's badly broken (I've mentioned this elsewhere in the thread, but I

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:51:57 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: ... > For "normal" file operations, taking an LVM snapshot of the mounted > filesystem > and then making your backup from that should be sufficient. This should even > work for postgreSQL database files (though, it is not opt

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 14:07:07 Chris Davies wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > rsync -a /mounted/partition /directory/on/mounted/backup > > backs up all I need. Read man rsync for its options. > > > > Why not just copy the data off the mounted partition. Even more simple > > and faster. >

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Chris Davies
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > rsync -a /mounted/partition /directory/on/mounted/backup > backs up all I need. Read man rsync for its options. > Why not just copy the data off the mounted partition. Even more simple > and faster. That's great for you. It might not be so useful for the OP, because

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone ! > > On my previous systems, I used to create overall backups of partitions, > using 'SystemRescueCD'. This is no longer possible ever since 2007 that > I have a RAID1 mirroring system on my Debian. SystemRescueCD does not > backup LVM volumes, or, if it does, that

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Chris Davies
Bernard wrote: > On my previous systems, I used to create overall backups of partitions, > using 'SystemRescueCD'. This is no longer possible ever since 2007 that > I have a RAID1 mirroring system on my Debian. You used to boot from SystemRescueCD and backup the partitions corresponding to the

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Steven
On Tue, April 27, 2010 00:33, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone ! > > On my previous systems, I used to create overall backups of partitions, > using 'SystemRescueCD'. This is no longer possible ever since 2007 that > I have a RAID1 mirroring system on my Debian. SystemRescueCD does not > backup LVM