Anyone using fsarchiver to backup their Linux filesystems?

Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) teoenming at lavabit.com
Fri Sep 24 05:42:23 UTC 2010


fsarchiver: http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page

I am using it to backup my Linux ext4 filesystems and Logical Volume 
Manager 2 (LVM2) logical volumes.

Here is a very simple Linux shell script which I wrote to backup my 
/boot filesystem as well as the host operating system's volume group.

<CODE>
#!/bin/sh

DESTDIR=/media/usbharddisk
FILENAME=22sep2010-wed.fsa
BOOT=/dev/sda1
OPTIONS="-A -j 2"

fsarchiver savefs $DESTDIR/$FILENAME $BOOT /dev/vg_fedora11_host/lv_home 
/dev/vg_fedora11_host/lv_root /dev/vg_fedora11_host/lv_var \
$OPTIONS
</CODE>

Specifying the option "-A" allows me to do a live backup of the 
filesystems while they are mounted read-write. The option "-j2" allows 
me to use 2 compression threads (I am using Intel Pentium Dual Core 
E6300 processor @ 2800 MHz).

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