On Jul 24, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Post, Mark K wrote:

For one thing, full-volume backups preserve partition information,
making recovery much simpler.  If I had to recover a hundred Linux
systems, dig through the system documentation to figure out which
partitions were what size, and belonged to these particular file
systems
or were LVM PVs (or md volumes), a lot of time could go by before we
even started restoring data from tape.

Ah.  See, this is why you need a policy that says "For a Linux guest
of type X, the standard volume and filesystem layout is Y."

Adam

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