On 12/07 03:18 , Les Mikesell wrote: > Shawn Perry wrote: > > Tar works pretty good too, and it's quite a bit faster. > > > > To be honest though, BackupPC's data directory should ALWAYS be on an > > LVM as it makes moving it SO much easier. > > What's easier with LVM in the usual case where you want to go to a > bigger physical disk or md device and both new and old instances will > have one partition taking all of the space?
I tend to agree with Les. I used to set up BackupPC servers on LVM; and then realized: - it's more trouble when trying to recover data from a corrupt fs/dead machine - there is a performance hit, and BackupPC needs all the performance it can get - we usually don't expand onto other disks in the array; normally when it's time to upgrade we move to a new machine anyway. So LVM isn't as useful in the case where it's supposed to help. I'm not opposed to it; just keep in mind how likely you are to actually use it, and what the drawbacks are. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
