Re: Amanda vs lvm with 2, 1T SSD's

2022-04-07 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 7 Apr 2022 09:27:47 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > > On Thu, 07 Apr 2022 05:29:21 -0400 > gene heskett wrote: > > > Does anyone have any experience at useing more than 1 drive in a > > vtape setup? > > Yes. > > One problem with LVM by itself is that there is no redundancy. Loose a >

Re: Amanda vs lvm with 2, 1T SSD's

2022-04-07 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 07 Apr 2022 05:29:21 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > Does anyone have any experience at useing more than 1 drive in a > vtape setup? Yes. One problem with LVM by itself is that there is no redundancy. Loose a hard drive, and any volume groups on it or partially on it are likely toast. For

Re: Amanda vs lvm with 2, 1T SSD's

2022-04-07 Thread Kees Meijs | Nefos
Hi, Albeit in a broader context: LVM works very well. Although in your case there is a significant drawback: if one SSD were to fail, the volume group would break. Maybe it's safer to spread the virtual tapes across both SSDs (having individual file systems), for example using symbolic

Amanda vs lvm with 2, 1T SSD's

2022-04-07 Thread gene heskett
Greetings all; In my quest to convert all my system, to SSD's since spinning rust above 1T has all failed rapidly, costing me all my history back into the 1990's I now have 2 more 1 terabyte Samsungs, and I'd like to hear of amanda users useing more than 1 drive for vtapes in an LVM setup to