does partimage support backing up Logical Volumes

[hi2satish]

I wanted to backup logical volume /dev/abc_vg_ide_0/lv1. The following command gave me an error as below:

# ./partimage0.6.5 -B gui=no -z1 -od -f3 save /dev/abc_vg_ide_0/lv1 foo1.img
partimage: status: initializing the operation. Please wait...
Segmentation fault
[root@shdev-8 ~]# echo $?
139
# ls -l foo1*
-rw------- 1 root root 331 Aug 11 19:04 foo1.img.000
#


# ./partimage0.6.5 -B gui=no -z1 -od -f3 save /dev/mapper/abc_vg_pri_ide_0-lv1 foo2.img
partimage: status: initializing the operation. Please wait...
Segmentation fault
[root@shdev-8 ~]# echo $?
139
[root@shdev-8 ~]# ls -l foo2*
-rw------- 1 root root 333 Aug 11 19:06 foo2.img.000
[root@shdev-8 ~]#


Not sure whether partimage version 0.6.5 supports LVM.

[kiwigee]

Hi,
Although you don't explicitly say so or not - it seems to me you may be saving the image on the same volume you're trying to image ?
Or at least to don't give the path to the image location.

I think.

cheers
gee

[hi2satish]

The current directory from where I initiated the above command is / and it is not under LVM and not same as source FS.

[feffer]

Hi hi2satish,
Since your initial post was a year ago, I think you must have moved on. Right? If you are still interested in getting this working, partimage will work on both primary and logical partitions. You tried:

# ./partimage0.6.5 -B gui=no -z1 -od -f3 save /dev/abc_vg_ide_0/lv1 foo1.img

Isn't "/dev/abc_vg_ide_0" a logical partition and "/lv1" a sub-directory of it? I don't think you can image sub-directories -- only entire partitions. Also, make sure "/dev/abc_vg_ide_0" is unmounted and try using the full path to the image.

feffer