On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:52:15 -0400 ken gebser@mousecar.com wrote:
If it matters the system uses LVM. I'd also like to be able to avoid needing the network if possible. That is, I'd plug in a disk into a USB port and backup the system onto that... again, while the system is live.
If it should be an exact copy you can also do this via LVM snapshots
e.g. http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_lvm_snapshots
Brgds