[linux-lvm] Block-Level Backup

[Markus Schiltknecht]

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:02, Rocky Lee wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> How to do block-level Backup with LVM?
> "tar" seems like only support file-level backup.
> any backup tool recommand?

What exactly shall this be good for?

I immediately thought about ISO files: CD-ROM images. You can do the
very same to any block device:

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/tmp/disk.bak

Of course, the drive mounted ot /tmp has to be larger than /dev/hda1, in
this case... and it's filesystem should probably support files > 2GB.
Compression might help, too.

Not sure if that's whah you're looking for...

Markus