Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restoring files while rdiff-backup is running

[Dominic]

Simon Hobson wrote:
> Helge Milde wrote:
>
> > Can you elaborate on this, please?
>
> OK, say you want to restore file A from some time ago...
Without fully understanding this, would it be possible, if the 
repository is inside an LVM logical volume (mine will be, as it so 
happens :-)    ), to create a snapshot and then restore from that, while 
the original backup proceeds on the original volume? Or would the 
snapshot also be locked/unusable, whether for an rdiff-backup restore or 
for other processes? (I want to replicate my rdiff-backup server 
repositories to an offsite machine, and my plan is to have a cron job 
which creates an LVM snapshot and then uses rsync to synchronise the 
remote data, but again this activity might overlap with ongoing backups.)

Dominic