Backing up LVs

[Alexander Skwar]

· Gabriel M Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru>:

> Hey I've taken a look at partimage. Ran the gui by involing sudo
> partimage. It kind of sees my discs. hda1 is windows (NTFS) and it says
> that it's unsupported.

Strange.

> hda2 is /boot and is ext2, and it also says that 
> is unsupported.

Even more strange.

> /hda3 is a pe of 54gb, now this have many things listed 
> under it, about 10 sections each being 5gb and all labelled as being
> reiser3.6 and type dd.... is this right?

You mean type "dm", don't you? Because that's what I see as well.

It seems that the gui "partition" selector doesn't support Device
Mapper and thus LVM.

HOWEVER, the CLI works just fine:

        sudo partimage save /dev/sys/URoot /some/where/URoot-image

This would save the LV "URoot" of VG "sys" in file(s) /some/where/URoot-image

Alexander Skwar
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