> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bryan Halter > > As far as I know if you lose a disk in an LVM dies you're > SOL. If you > need redundancy and want a scheme that allows you to have a > huge folume > look into RAID-5. It allows you n-1 size so you need to > start out with > atleast 3 disks, with 1 disk being overhead but as long as > you only lose > 1 disk at a time you will be able to survive a failure.
Backups are the traditional approach to data recovery. There's a lot of good software that will allow periodic backups cost effectively. I do automatic nightly backups to another workstation that has spare HD capacity. I backup just the OS (including /home) because I don't want to have to rebuild it; the video storage is not that important. If you do want total redundancy, RAID-5 is a good way to go, but it will likely require more expensive SATAs or SCSIs to overcome the 4 drive IDE limitation, bigger power supply, more heat and noise, etc. Richard. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
