Re: [rdiff-backup-users] using rdiff-backup to backup block-devices

[freisei]

Dominic schrieb:
> Freisei wrote:
> > is it possible to patch rdiff-backup to backup snapshots of 
> > lvm2-devices?
> > Would be great to have incremental backups of my virtual machines.
> >
> > rdiff-backup /dev/vg0/backupdiff .
> > Fatal Error: Source /dev/vg0/backupdiff is not a directory
> >
> > For rsync there is a patch called "--copy-devices"
> That would be nice, but you can always mount the lvm snapshot and then 
> back that up using rdiff-backup (then unmount and remove the snapshot) 
> - my cron job does this daily.
>
> Dominic
I want to backup windows-harddisk-images (not only partitions) with all 
stuff - (bootsector etc.)
there are additional problems with database-servers on this partition - 
and NTFS isn?t fully supported (ADS etc.) on writeback.

So i have no chance to restore my win-server-vm exactly.

I think, i really have to backup the entire image.

- Freisei