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In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:22:41 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>> I want to do it this way because I don't trust LVM enough to put my OS |
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>>> on. Just my personal opinion on LVM. |
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>> This doesn't make sense. Your OS can be reinstalled in an hour or two, |
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>> your photos etc. are irreplaceable. |
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> It does to me. I want to keep things so that if there is a problem, I |
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> know how to fix it or can at least get to a point that I can get help on |
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> it. If LVM fails and I can't boot, then I loose everything on LVM |
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> because I would have to reinstall from scratch. If it fails just on my |
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> data stuff, I can get help and fix it because I can still boot up and |
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> get to my email program. Also, I have the important stuff backed up to |
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> DVD. I would only loose things that I can download again. I would just |
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> rather avoid that and I'm sure AT&T would agree. That's a lot of |
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> downloading. |
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I have all my partitions on LVM except the boot partition. I've used LVM |
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for more years than I could count and have *never* had a failure related |
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to LVM. |
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I backup my machines to an external drive (2 backup drives actually) |
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using rsync. |
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If I have a failure and cannot boot then I just put in my Gentoo Minimal |
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CD (which has all the LVM tools available) and I can fix the damage. If |
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the damage isn't fixable then I can just copy over the backups. |
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LVM snapshots make live backups a breeze. Backups are always in a |
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consistent state and I've tested them and they *work*. |
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Regards, |
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Gregory. |
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