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On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> All my partitions are LVM volumes, so before the backup starts, I make a |
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> LVM snapshot of the partition. This way I can modify it while the backup |
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> is still in progress. |
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hmm, never got into LVM. Sounds interesting though... |
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> I wrote a shell script to do this, so I do not have to issue a lot of |
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> commands every time I want to do the backup. |
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I don't use too many commands, something like this |
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in /etc/cron.daily/custom-backup: |
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sudo /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/rsync -aAx --exclude suspend_file |
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--delete-delay --delete-excluded --partial |
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--human-readable / /<unique-mount-of-external-drive> || echo external |
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backup failed! |
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> As there are now some others |
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> using this script, adapted to their needs, I started to rewrite it in a |
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> way that it reads a config file, and no modification of the script itself |
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> is necessary. If anyone is interested, send me an email. |
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interested! So is it on sourceforge yet ;) |
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thanks, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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BOFH Excuse #418: |
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Sysadmins busy fighting SPAM. |
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