This is a nice way to make a backup of your root and home filesystems – at least this is how I get it done. Before you read on, I’ll say that the home files are on a different mounted drive than the root files. These are also LVM2 drives.

First I check the drive that will get the final partimage files. Then I mount the spare drive to be used by partimage. This allows me to never unmount the root and home filesystems. Then I unmount the spare drive and check it. Next I make the partimage copy or delete the tmp file if it fails. Last I delete images older than 25 days and unmount. This allows me to keep four backup versions – one for today and three previous images.

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