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[Tooltime]

Does anyone know whether this facility is actually available or installable into Xandros Server. There seems to be a cut down version of the LVM used during the primary install and there is the Storage Manager Gui , for resizng and mount changing, and BRu backup once the install has been done but these don't seem to offer the same capabilities of the LVMsnapshots

[mister.koz]

The guy who supplied us with xandros told me that an LVM snapshop was the easiest way to do a full backup of xandros and scalix but i tend to disagree.

The issue with an lvm snapshot is that it can backup the drive state in the middle of a transaction for example mysql or postgres could be 1/2 way through an sql write query.

For this reason i seperate the operating system and the database files and i plan to do an lvm of the main operating system and i currently do a database dump and a dar backup of everything else.

If you are happy with the console in linux, this howto is pretty good for creating lvm snapshots of an etch system (xandros is based on debian)

http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_lvm_snapshots

I have written my own dar backup scripts and i am currently testing them on our servers here, i could give you some pointers if you like.
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