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.
