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Volume Shadow Copy For Linux?

Posted by Soulskill on from the restorative-tux dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I was asked to manage a number of Linux servers at work. I would like to use volume snapshots to improve my backup scripts and keep recent copies of data around for quick restore. I normally manage Windows servers and on those I would just use Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy for this. I tried Linux LVM snapshots, but most of the servers I manage run regular partitions with ext3 file systems, so LVM snapshots will not work. I found some versioning file systems out there like ext3cow and Tux3. Those look interesting, but I need something I can use on my existing ext3 file systems. I also found the R1Soft Hot Copy command-line utility, but it does not yet support my older 2.4 Linux servers. What are you using to make snapshots on Linux?"

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  1. l0lz0rs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GNAA 4 LIFE. Goatse is my god!

  2. Re:"does not yet support my older 2.4 Linux server by QuantumRiff · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your post..

    your Sig.

    My head, spinning...

    --

    What are we going to do tonight Brain?
  3. Re:hey retard: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ahh yes, the 1990s... before suso lost his ass cherry but found anal warts. No wonder his asshole wants to go back in time!

  4. Re:You're confused by DavidRawling · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OK I know that Windows just does NTFS nowadays, unless you manually create a FAT volume - but going from FAT to NTFS is a simple conversion:

    convert q: /fs:ntfs

    That's all there is to it.