bash

Some time ago I wrote a simple automation script for taking LVM snapshots, backing them up as disk images, and efficiently compressing in the process. Logical Volume Manager is often overlooked solution in this regard, providing much needed flexibility as a bitwise backup strategy. Key word here being bitwise - exact bit by bit replica. This is exclusively how I backup my systems nowadays. It’s so much smoother than offline disk cloning (Clonezilla etc....