Les Mikesell wrote: >>>>>From the longtime experience direction, be sure to figure out the >>>>snapshotting upfront; a good snapshot rotation can save you so much pain >>>>it's not funny; many commercial NAS (NetApp, SnapServer, EMC, etc) have >>>>this integrated. When looking at a DIY linux NAS, you may have to roll >>>>it up. >>> >>> >>>I think there are still problems with LVM2 snapshots. >> >>we're hoping to see a major improvement in that situation ( lvm2 / >>kernel 2.6 / snapshots ) with the CentOS 4.3 release. not too far now :) > > > Do you know if it is possible to image-copy a snapshot off > to another system? A backuppc archive contains so many hardlinks > that normal copy techniques are not practical. I currently > raid-mirror to external firewire drives that are rotated offsite > periodically, but it would probably work better to freeze an > LVM snapshot and copy that instead. > hi Les, you can reverse mount and add-as-share the snapshot, over whatever service you like ( smb, ftp, http-web-dab, nfs ) and backup using whatever means you like. - K -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq