Just a recommendation (outside of backup really) but
you should make your 137G LVM controlled so you have
to power to control where it goes.  I would make /
like 5 GB or whatever you like, but use the rest of
the space for various filesystems like /home /database
/usr/local and make them LVM controlled--- I love
being able to make my 50GB space useful by extending
the filesystem only as I need it, and you don't end up
with all your eggs in one basket... man that would
suck if you had filesystem issues on /

Jerry

--- Thom Paine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a 140G RAID5 array that I would like to back
> up to my 20/40 DDS4
> Seagate drive.
> 
> Without a lot of experience with a drive this large,
> I've made a 100M
> /boot partition, a 2G swap partition (I have 1G of
> ram), and finally the
> rest of the drive ~137G set to /.
> 
> I've allocated 20G to /tmp for a holding disk. I
> have set it to back up
> / every day. I have 5 tapes.
> 
> I guess I should exclude /tmp and /var/tmp from the
> backup list so that
> it isn't backing up the tar file as well.
> 
> Any other recommendations on this setup. 
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> -=/>Thom
> Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche) running Linux
> Kernel 2.4.18-14
> Uptime:  9:54pm  up 2 days,  7:25,  1 user,  load
> average: 1.05, 1.55,
> 2.20
> Registered Linux User #214499 http://counter.li.org
> 


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