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faster dd backup by differential copy

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Mar 15, 20264701 views
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im looking to use dd to back up my whole hard drive regularly but it takes around 1.5 hours and want to know if there is a faster way to back up. possibly just by updating the bytes which are different.

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You can backup a single LVM partition (not a whole raw disk as you mention but may still meet your requirements) by taking a snapshot of it, then doing a incremental backup of the filesystem rather than the raw disk. Once you have the snapshot, you …

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