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 volumes, or, if it does, that must be a very new feature, and > I have not found any doc on this. > > So, what should I do so as to backup my system ? I once tried 'dd', but > I think I remember it took forever, and I don't really know whether I > would have been able to use the resulting file to successfully restore > the partitions if needed. > > Could someone suggest something that has been successfully tried ? Even > 'dd' could do, if it is OK with LVM and if I get some details. I > understand that I would have to unmount the partitions, but this is not > a problem. I have two IDE mirrored disks of 200 GB each. > > Thanks in advance for your insights. >
How about clonezilla (http://www.clonezilla.org/)? It supports LVM2 (not 1) and is based on Debian (I think you should be able to get what you need from the Debian repositories anyway). But I'm not an expert :) -- Rarely do people communicate; they just take turns talking. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/14970.81.246.17.226.1272353817.squir...@stevenleeuw.kwik.to
