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From: | freisei |
Subject: | Re: [rdiff-backup-users] using rdiff-backup to backup block-devices |
Date: | Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:56:30 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) |
Dominic schrieb:
I want to backup windows-harddisk-images (not only partitions) with all stuff - (bootsector etc.) there are additional problems with database-servers on this partition - and NTFS isn?t fully supported (ADS etc.) on writeback.Freisei wrote:is it possible to patch rdiff-backup to backup snapshots of lvm2-devices?That would be nice, but you can always mount the lvm snapshot and then back that up using rdiff-backup (then unmount and remove the snapshot) - my cron job does this daily.Would be great to have incremental backups of my virtual machines. rdiff-backup /dev/vg0/backupdiff . Fatal Error: Source /dev/vg0/backupdiff is not a directory For rsync there is a patch called "--copy-devices"Dominic
So i have no chance to restore my win-server-vm exactly. I think, i really have to backup the entire image. - Freisei
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