How to backup entire VG

[lawrenzo]

sorry I meant fbackup to save files - frecover to restore the files.

ef fbackup -i / -e/ -g/path -f /

the -i is include directory trees
the -e is to exclude
use of the -g is with a graph file where you will specify the directories to include / exclude using i or e at the start of each line.

then -f specifies where to write the file to.

another example from another machine using dd

fbackup -f -i |rsh "dd of=/dev/rmt/1m bs=1024k"

hope this helps

read the man pages as there is lots of good info there.

[Ivajlo Yanakiev]

Make_tape_recovery can backup any VGxx
use -x inc_entire=vg_name.

make_tape_recovery DO NOT save your raw devices. It create boot file and tar content from all VG file system (LV).

[KapilRaj]

I think the only way is to "dd" or a mirror on another disk

Kaps

[Ivajlo Yanakiev]

I'm not sure :)
If you use oracle you can use oracle softwareto backup raw LV. Probably any software that work with raw LV have software to make backup.

For what you are use yuor raw LV ??