Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > No one said "education". I said warn users of the advisability of > using a dedicated filesystem that can easily be > copied/resized/moved. Because most people don't recognize the problem > of copying/moving/resizing their BackupPC database until they have > been using it for a while at which point it might be too late. > > And I didn't say LVM is the only solution - though I am not aware of > too many other solutions on Linux that allow easy resizing and > spreading of a single filesystem across multiple solutions. If there > are many others that allow that, please enlighten me...
You make it sound a lot harder than it is. Just get some new disks the right size and start over, keeping the old filesystem around for emergencies until the new one accumulates a suitable history. > I think you are the one with "shenanigans" based on your unwillingness > to open your mind to other needs and other solutions -- and if you > had been a long-time contributor to this newsgroup, you would realize > that this issue continues to arise without satisfactory solution no > matter how many times people parrot the words "LVM", "ZFS", "block > copy", etc. There are solutions. It's your choice if you don't want to use them. > It is a kludge to use hard-links as the way of tracking and expiring > backups while using an attrib file to store the usual attributes > associated with a file. That might be philosophically true, but I can't recall an actual problem caused by the attrib files. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/