Jared Watkins schrieb: > > Christian Schulte wrote: > > > Jared Watkins wrote: > > > >> I would think you could use LVM the linux volume manager along with > >> it's snapshot feature.. and then any sort of backup program you > >> want. I'm not using this method yet... but I will be soon... is > >> anyone else out there running LVM or some other volume manager under > >> linux in production? > >> > >> Jared > > > > > > I have had many many troubles with the linux LVM itself. I would > > rather suggest using a well configured linux softare raid. This is > > much more stable than LVM! I lost 250GB because of LVM and did not > > have a backup. With software raid on linux this would not have > > happened.... > > That's a little vague... How long ago was this.. and what was going on > when you had the failure? Was it an LVM failure.. or something > related.. like a non redundant dead drive.. or file system issue? > Software raid is not exactly a replacement for LVM.. espicially when > talking about the snapshot feature..
Well, I was using LVM on top of software RAID1/5 and it worked very well! Simon
