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Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:41:51 -0500
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS
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Gregory Shearman wrote:
> In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>
>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:22:41 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I want to do it this way because I don't trust LVM enough to put my OS
>>>> on. Just my personal opinion on LVM.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> This doesn't make sense. Your OS can be reinstalled in an hour or two,
>>> your photos etc. are irreplaceable.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> It does to me. I want to keep things so that if there is a problem, I
>> know how to fix it or can at least get to a point that I can get help on
>> it. If LVM fails and I can't boot, then I loose everything on LVM
>> because I would have to reinstall from scratch. If it fails just on my
>> data stuff, I can get help and fix it because I can still boot up and
>> get to my email program. Also, I have the important stuff backed up to
>> DVD. I would only loose things that I can download again. I would just
>> rather avoid that and I'm sure AT&T would agree. That's a lot of
>> downloading.
>>
> I have all my partitions on LVM except the boot partition. I've used LVM
> for more years than I could count and have *never* had a failure related
> to LVM.
>
> I backup my machines to an external drive (2 backup drives actually)
> using rsync.
>
> If I have a failure and cannot boot then I just put in my Gentoo Minimal
> CD (which has all the LVM tools available) and I can fix the damage. If
> the damage isn't fixable then I can just copy over the backups.
>
> LVM snapshots make live backups a breeze. Backups are always in a
> consistent state and I've tested them and they *work*.
>
>
If you know how to do that, then that works. Right now, I have no
experience with LVM. All I know is what I have read which is about as
clear as mud. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
P. S. I wonder why this reply was not threaded with the rest? I see
this happen sometimes with other threads. Always been curious about that.