Freisei wrote:
> Is it possible to patch rdiff-backup to backup snapshots of lvm2-devices?
> 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"
> 

Yes it is!

See the  Dec 21, 2010 16:39:41 PST 2010 blog entry here:
BlockFuse to the Rescue: rdiff-backup of LVM Snapshots and Block Devices 
(http://www.globallinuxsecurity.pro/blog.php?q=rdiff-backup-lvm-snapshot)

Cheers,

-Eric

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