On 02/04 07:48 , Raoul Bhatia wrote: > What's the issue with using LVM? Unless you need to reinitialize the whole > fs, i.e. increase EXT4 inode count or switch to another fs, believe this is a > perfect example of where LVM shines.
I'd like to insert a word of caution based on experience. I don't know about using LVM for copying data to a new disk; but I do know that using LVM snapshots to get a quiesced pool for backup, was a poor idea in my case. It took 12h to get a tar dump of a given BackupPC data pool when BPC was fully stopped, but 2 days to try to backup the same data pool when it was quiesced using an LVM snapshot. We decided it was better to have BPC offline for a short period (scheduled on the weekend), but running full speed the rest of the time, rather than degraded in performance for 4x as long. Not fully relevant to the problem at hand, but still worth considering for future reference. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
