I have a series of unmounted lv's that are used in xen vm's of various flavors in a lab environment. I made a script that I use to backup all of them prior to doing anything I may need to undo and all I execute is:

dd if=/dev/vgname/lvname of=/dir/name.img

Are there any additional parameters I should use? I haven't tried to restore this into an lv, but I did swap the 'phy' specification for 'file' and started a vm using the backed up image and it was fine.

Thanks!
jlc
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Joseph L. Casale wrote on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:07:00 -0600:

> dd if=/dev/vgname/lvname of=/dir/name.img

if you want to save space you could gzip/b2zip them

dd if=/dev/vgname/lvname | gzip > /dir/name.img.gz


Kai

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