Amanda vs lvm with 2, 1T SSD's

2022-04-07 Thread gene heskett
Greetings all; In my quest to convert all my system, to SSD's since spinning rust above 1T has all failed rapidly, costing me all my history back into the 1990's I now have 2 more 1 terabyte Samsungs, and I'd like to hear of amanda users useing more than 1 drive for vtapes in an LVM setup to

Re: Amanda vs lvm with 2, 1T SSD's

2022-04-07 Thread Kees Meijs | Nefos
Hi, Albeit in a broader context: LVM works very well. Although in your case there is a significant drawback: if one SSD were to fail, the volume group would break. Maybe it's safer to spread the virtual tapes across both SSDs (having individual file systems), for example using symbolic

Re: Amanda vs lvm with 2, 1T SSD's

2022-04-07 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 7 Apr 2022 09:27:47 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > > On Thu, 07 Apr 2022 05:29:21 -0400 > gene heskett wrote: > > > Does anyone have any experience at useing more than 1 drive in a > > vtape setup? > > Yes. > > One problem with LVM by itself is that there is no redundancy. Loose a >

Re: Amanda vs lvm with 2, 1T SSD's

2022-04-07 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 07 Apr 2022 05:29:21 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > Does anyone have any experience at useing more than 1 drive in a > vtape setup? Yes. One problem with LVM by itself is that there is no redundancy. Loose a hard drive, and any volume groups on it or partially on it are likely toast. For