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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?
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edgar . soldin |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions? |
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Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:42:21 +0100 |
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On 12.12.2012 11:37, T. Prost wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 11.12.2012, 17:02 +0100 schrieb address@hidden:
>> On 11.12.2012 15:26, T. Prost wrote:
>>> Am Montag, den 10.12.2012, 19:01 +0100 schrieb GDR!:
>>>> On 12/10/2012 01:16 PM, George MacKerron wrote: > Thanks Edgar. Yes,
>>>> I'm already using LVM snapshots. I just wanted to then back up the raw
>>>> volume data, rather than mount the snapshot and back up the files it
>>>> contains.
>>>>
>>>> Just to justify what he's doing and point that "just mount it" is not a
>>>> good answer: he might want to back up a Windows partition that he's
>>>
>>> BTW: Are there known Problems when backing up a Windows partition with
>>> duplicity ?
>>>
>>
>> like how? with cygwin duplicity? under linux mounted or via device dump?
>
> mount in linux
> backup to local external disk
>
> If problems aren't known as duplicityy-specific, can there be general
> problems backing up or even reading a windows volume in this config and
> environment ?
using ntfs-3g you should be quite safe. of course there is ntfs specific
meta-data that will not/cannot be backed up by duplicity. but if you are
concerned for your data, simply watch out for bugs in ntfs-3g, otherwise you
should be fine.
..ede
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, (continued)
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, edgar . soldin, 2012/12/10
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, George MacKerron, 2012/12/10
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, edgar . soldin, 2012/12/10
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, GDR!, 2012/12/10
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, edgar . soldin, 2012/12/10
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, GDR!, 2012/12/11
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, edgar . soldin, 2012/12/11
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, T. Prost, 2012/12/11
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, edgar . soldin, 2012/12/11
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, T. Prost, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?,
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- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, T. Prost, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, edgar . soldin, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, T. Prost, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, edgar . soldin, 2012/12/12
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, T. Prost, 2012/12/13
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, Michael Terry, 2012/12/13
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?, edgar . soldin, 2012/12/13