Well, today dirvish proved its value to me. The main hard drive on my mail server started throwing lots of sector errors, so I built a replacement drive from last night's backup. The old main drive lasted long enough to rsync the morning's email over (including a message from a client that owes me bunches of money, but that is another story).
One difficulty is my ignorance about building LVM partitions. I am running Scientific Linux 5 ( a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 clone ) on the server, and it sets up the drives with LVM for all but the boot partition. The fastest way for me to set up LVM was to do a minimal SL5 reinstall on the new drive, then scribble over the top of it with the backup, updates and all. When I have more time, perhaps I will learn enough about LVM setup to add that to my restore script. Or perhaps one of you fine folks can write up an LVM restore HOWTO and put it on the dirvish wiki ... Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
