On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM, carlopmart <carlopmart at gmail.com> wrote: > Kwan Lowe wrote: >> >> I actually prefer backing up LVMs.. I use the snapshot feature which >> means I can backup a live volume. Works well. > > But I can't use snapshot feature because under these lvm partitions there are ZFS, > NTFS and so on filesystems that linux can't access ... > There is a perfectly usable NTFS support file system available for CentOS/Linux - I use it from time to time for disk backups. Take a look at NTFS-fuse. BTW, volume backups generally do not require knowledge of the underlying file system structures, so this shouldn't be an issue anyway. mhr