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2008 Sep 16
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dsnapshot
...resemble the file system layer. Thus, you can
| snapshot any directory that is on a logical volume and you don?t have to
| worry about the actual logical volumes, mount points and paths.
And this is the actual syntax for creating...
| $ dsnapshot --create /srv/mysql/test/
| /var/lib/dsnapshot/srv-fdf2e6dc/mysql/test/
... and removing a directory snapshot
| $ dsnapshot --remove /var/lib/dsnapshot/srv-fdf2e6dc/mysql/test/
I've found it very handy when you need to backup partial directories and
not the whole volume. Some people use it to backup the disk images of
running virtual machines, I use...