I've been reading the excellent howto on creating an LVM snapshot and backing it up, but I have a couple of questions. Has anyone tried using fsarchive? Any benefits to that? Has anyone tried to restore from within a boot init shell? I would like to have a restore option in the GRUB config menu and do the restore from a boot init shell script. I created a new boot selection in the GRUB config file and added the kernel option to boot into a shell ______ kernel ... init=/bin/sh I think I should be able to do the restore from here, but the LVM tools aren't fully installed, so I'm not sure how to mount/unmount LVM partitions. The lvm command doesn't seem fully functional. The commands /sbin/lvm and /sbin/lvm.static are available, but I'm not sure what to do with them. Maybe there are some LVM tools I need to add to a custom initrd.img? Any insights into doing this would be helpful. Also, when I backup the / root system partition, can I exclude the /boot partition from the archive? /boot is a separate partition that gets mounted into /. My HDD structure is like this _____ /boot _____________ 200 MB _____ /snapshot _______ 10000 MB _____ /backup _________ 10000 MB _____ /LVMGroup00 __________ /swap ________ 200 MB __________ / __________ 10000 MB __________ /DATA _____ 960000 MB Thanks, -Jerry (Anyone know how to put tabs or spaces into these posts?!)
