[00:00] <pleia2> raevol: yeah, using dd is the way, I tend to dd over to another lvm slice on another machine (can dd over ssh)
[00:01] <pleia2> from my recent vm backups: sudo dd if=/dev/r2d2/puppet.alderaan.princessleia.com | ssh r4g9 dd of=/dev/r4g9/puppet.alderaan.princessleia.com
[00:01] <pleia2> after creating the lvm volume on the remote system
[00:02] <raevol> i see i see
[00:03] <raevol> pleia2: is it possible to put the "dd if" side over ssh? as in the machine running the backups pulls the image off of a remote server?
[00:03] <pleia2> raevol: only one way to find out! (I'm really not sure)
[00:03] <raevol> lulll ;D
[00:04] <raevol> ah the problem was creating the snapshot first i think
[00:05] <pleia2> I assume the VM is running?
[00:05] <raevol> yea
[00:05]  * pleia2 nods
[00:07] <raevol> but i could just do that over ssh right? i guess permissions of the ssh user is an issue
[00:08] <pleia2> heh, so I was just bad and doing everything as root (as I tend to do for backups)
[00:09] <pleia2> my machines all have a root ssh key of my backups server (let's hope my backups server stays safe behind its firewall :))
[00:09] <raevol> D:
[00:09] <raevol> that's... terrifying
[00:09] <pleia2> indeed
[00:09] <raevol> are you the only IT person doing IT in your IT world?
[00:09] <pleia2> oh, it's my home
[00:09] <pleia2> so whatever :)
[00:09] <raevol> fair enough
[00:09] <raevol> haha
[00:09] <raevol> ok go time ttys!
[00:10] <pleia2> we use cloud things at work
[00:10] <pleia2> (to be fair, I do restrict what can be done with that key, so it's not that bad)