Nice in theory, very, very hard to do in practice when supporting multiple clients with differing needs.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 3:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Bad Linux backups 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
