Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

[Dale]

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.