[linux-lvm] amanda and lvm

[linux-lvm] amanda and lvm

[Darin Perusich]

hello,

is anyone using amanda, www.amanda.org to dump lvm's out there? i'm
trying to dump a volume and when it gets to the volume it just hangs
there. the filesystems are reiserfs so i'm using tar to preform the
dumps. i'm able to successfully dump the other filesystems.

i've been using amanda to dump volumes created with Sun's Solstice Disk
Suite. all you need to do is specify the path to the block device, in
this case i'm using /dev/volume_group/logical_volume. the only
difference is under solaris you can use ufsdump.

thanks

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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper@cognigencorp.com

Re: [linux-lvm] amanda and lvm

[Jesus Manuel NAVARRO LOPEZ]

Hi, Darin:

Darin Perusich wrote:

> hello,
> 
> is anyone using amanda, www.amanda.org to dump lvm's out there? i'm
> trying to dump a volume and when it gets to the volume it just hangs
> there. the filesystems are reiserfs so i'm using tar to preform the
> dumps. i'm able to successfully dump the other filesystems.
> 
> i've been using amanda to dump volumes created with Sun's Solstice Disk
> Suite. all you need to do is specify the path to the block device, in
> this case i'm using /dev/volume_group/logical_volume. the only
> difference is under solaris you can use ufsdump.
> 


While I don't use LVM on production systems, I did a test run with LVM 
1.0 on a 2.2.19 kernel (a Red Hat 6.2 based box).  I worked just OK 
regarding Amanda.  Indeed, since Amanda is nothing more than a wrapper 
around your current backup tool of choice I would look for:

a/ A config mistake
b/ Some problem with your tool: here I'd look for problems regarding the 
truple LVM/tar/ReiserFS.

Under these asumptions, can you properly tar those volumes undependant 
from Amanda?
-- 
SALUD,
Jes�s
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