Re: [Dump-users] Help with full and incremental dumps

[Kenneth P. <sh...@se...>]

--On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 7:54 AM -0500 Scott Ehrlich 
<sc...@MI...> wrote:

> So my next question would be if I set up my filesystem withOUT LVM, and,
> considering it is an active machine, is there any easy way to incorporate
> LVM without having to redo everything?

I don't think so, but you could prepare a mirrored LVM filesystem (mirrored 
by rsync, for example), and when you next do serious maintenance that 
requires downtime, you can swap the mirror for the old filesystem.