Chris Davies wrote:
Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr 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
On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 18:11 +0200, Bernard wrote:
Chris Davies wrote:
Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr 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
Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr 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
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
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 database
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
Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr 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
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 must
Johannes Wiedersich johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de 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
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 14:07:07 Chris Davies wrote:
Johannes Wiedersich johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de 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
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:51:57 -0500
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net 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
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:44:27 +0100
Chris Davies chris-use...@roaima.co.uk 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
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's
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:40:37 -0500
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net 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):
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net 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
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 must be a very new
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