Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?

[T. Prost]

Am Mittwoch, den 12.12.2012, 14:59 +0100 schrieb address@hidden: 
> On 12.12.2012 14:32, T. Prost wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 12.12.2012, 11:42 +0100 schrieb address@hidden: 
> >> 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.
> > 
> > ... forgot to mention it was an FAT volume :-|
> > 
> > And as far as I can see, I see success in recovering the SNAPSHOT
> > directory, but reassembling the files in the multivol seems to produce
> > anything but the original files :-(
> > 
> > Sorry ...
> > 
> 
> you're aware the discussion started with LVM snapshots, right?
> 
> no clue what you mean by "recovering the SNAPSHOT directory" or "reassembling 
> the files in the multivol".

Sorry, I became attentive to the discussion because of the idea, someone
"might want to back up a Windows partition" - what I had done earlier
and now running into problems with the recovery :-(

But you're right. I expressed that in a really bad manner :-(

The recovery created two directories: multivol_snapshot and snapshot,
where I can read the files in "snapshot" but can't reassemble those in
the multivol.
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