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How to incrementally backup a partition (not as a bunch of files) and be able to mount the snapshots?

Is there any tools that allows this use case: I have a LVM2 partition vg-vol; I periodically create snapshots of it, save them (create_new_snapshot --directory=/media/external_storage/snapshots/ ...
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Using Linux LVM snapshots for system backups - “semop failed for cookie” error

I'm running Ubuntu 11.04, with the / partition in an encrypted LVM volume. /home is in the same logical volume. I'm trying to use the LVM snapshot functionality to enable time-consistent backups of ...
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Drive images backup in Linux

I have a linux server, and i want to make an image of the whole drive in real-time, like acronis does.
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How can I create consistent snapshots of tmpfs?

How can I create consistent snapshots of tmpfs or any RAM disks?
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Compare huge directory trees

I am looking for a free tool to make a snapshot of the filesystem structure (listing of files and directories, their size & timestamps) and can compare it to another one made later. treecomp ...