[mythtv-users] MythTV backup under LVM

[Mark Paulus]

rsnapshot is a utility that uses rsync and hard links.

http://www.rsnapshot.org



Jason wrote:
> look into rsync. you can do incremental backups that look just look full
> backups with newer versions and your backups will go much faster. Baring
> that, you can always use LVMs snapshot support and tar, but I like rsync
> myself.   I have a script up on www.cyborgworkshop.org in the projects
> section that will let you do incremental, hardlinked backups with rsync
> with very little effort.
> 
> Jason
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> 
> stan wrote:
>> I have two disks in my MythTV machine.  The system (/) is on hda3, and
>> recordings (/data/recordings) are on hdc1.  I've been backing up only hda
>> with partimage. I don't want to back up recordings.
>>
>> I plan to start using LVM under Fedora, and partimage doesn't seem
>> appropriate for backup under LVM especially for filesystems on logical
>> volumes that span partitions.  For instance I might wind up with / on a
>> logical volume that resides on all of hda3 and part of hdc1 and /data on the
>> remainder of hdc1. I don't see any way to back up only the / filesystem with
>> partimage in this case.
>>
>> Is tar the preferred backup method for filesystems under LVM?
>>
>> --stan
>>
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