Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?

[edgar . soldin]

On 12.12.2012 11:37, T. Prost wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 11.12.2012, 17:02 +0100 schrieb address@hidden: 
>> On 11.12.2012 15:26, T. Prost wrote:
>>> Am Montag, den 10.12.2012, 19:01 +0100 schrieb GDR!: 
>>>> On 12/10/2012 01:16 PM, George MacKerron wrote: > Thanks Edgar. Yes,
>>>> I'm already using LVM snapshots. I just wanted to then back up the raw
>>>> volume data, rather than mount the snapshot and back up the files it
>>>> contains.
>>>>
>>>> Just to justify what he's doing and point that "just mount it" is not a
>>>> good answer: he might want to back up a Windows partition that he's
>>>
>>> BTW: Are there known Problems when backing up a Windows partition with
>>> duplicity ?
>>>
>>
>> like how? with cygwin duplicity? under linux mounted or via device dump?
> 
> mount in linux
> backup to local external disk
> 
> If problems aren't known as duplicityy-specific, can there be general
> problems backing up or even reading a windows volume in this config and
> environment ?

using ntfs-3g you should be quite safe. of course there is ntfs specific 
meta-data that will not/cannot be backed up by duplicity. but if you are 
concerned for your data, simply watch out for bugs in ntfs-3g, otherwise you 
should be fine.

..ede