Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Linux can access, back up and recover logical volumes when running in Linux with 2.6.x kernel or a Linux-based bootable media.
Backup
In Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 GUI, logical volumes appear under Dynamic volumes at the end of the list of volumes available for backup. If you select logical volumes for backup, the logical volume structure will be saved to the backup along with the volume contents. This structure can be automatically recreated when you recover these volumes under a Linux-based bootable media.
To back up all available disks, specify all logical volumes plus basic volumes not belonging to them. This is the default choice when you open the Create backup plan page.
Basic volumes included in logical volumes are shown in the list with None in the File system column. If you select such volumes, the program will back them up sector-by-sector. Normally this is not required.
Recovery
When recovering logical volumes, you have two options:
This option is available both in the operating system and under bootable media.
This option is useful in the following cases:
A system, recovered from a logical volume backup to a basic disk, cannot boot because its kernel tries to mount the root file system at the logical volume. To boot the system, change the loader configuration and /etc/fstab so that LVM is not used and reactivate your boot loader.
A Linux system can boot only from a basic volume. When recovering the boot partition (/boot), make sure that the target volume is basic and that it is located on the first disk. You can recover other volumes, including the root partition (/), to logical volumes.
Such is the case when recovering on bare metal or on a machine with different volume structure. The structure of logical volumes can be automatically created at the time of recovery.
This option is available only under bootable media.
For detailed instructions on how to recover logical volumes, see Recovering MD devices and logical volumes.