Illegal dumping?

[x201s]

Hello Gurus,

I am trying to backup an entire server. This server has LVM partitions.
I created dump files for each partition.

But I am finding it difficult to work with LVM and don't want to use LVM in the backup server, so I want to create normal (non-LVM) partition.

In this case, can I restore the files taken from the LVM partition to a non-LVM partition?

ex.)
(1) making dump file:

dump -0uf /dmpfolder/var.dump  /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVolVar

(2) restoring:

mkdir restore
mount /dev/sda3  restore  -- suppose sda3 is NOT LVM partitioned
cd restore
restore -rf var .dump

Please advise.
Thanks.

[Rubberman]

By "dump files" I assume you mean bit copies of the partitions that have the LVM data on them? If so, the answer is, I don't think so. You need to backup the file system data itself, not the partitions. Then you will be able to restore the data to non-LVM volumes as needed.

Ok. Just looked at the man page for the "dump" command. I take back what I said above. You should be able to restore the data to the non-LVM partition/filesystem (it could be a RAID array), assuming it has enough room.

[x201s]

Yes, Rubberman, I could restore it .. meaning, at the restore time, no error occurred.
Right now, I am dealing with GRUB error.. but that may be something else.
Let me close this thread for now.
Thanks a lot.