> From: jim.cheet...@gmail.com [mailto:jim.cheet...@gmail.com] On Behalf
Of
> Sure, but effectively that's what a snapshot is; if a full cold backup
> takes say 1 hour, with LVM snapshotting you can reduce that to a
> couple of seconds. Surely that's worth investigating? If you can grab
> a snapsho
Call it Disaster/Recovery and then the database or application backup
will find its place in the bigger picture.
When it comes to databases or applications, it is always a good idea to
do a backup of the database or the application files using internal
tools (e.g. dump command) before doing a back
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 18:19 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Steve Holdoway
> wrote:
> > I wouldn't do that with the backups personally. If you're after backing
> > up important production databases, then I'd look at replicating them
> > ( to another machine preferabl
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> I wouldn't do that with the backups personally. If you're after backing
> up important production databases, then I'd look at replicating them
> ( to another machine preferably ) as a frist line of defence.
Replication gives you defence fro
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 13:25 +1300, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
>
> I'm using LVM's for there ability to take almost instant 'snapshots' of
> volumes to then utilize in full backups of the system including live
> databases (after appropriate freezing/blocking of database and flush of
> buffers etc to di
> From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:st...@greengecko.co.nz]
> Not done this on 9.10, but with all (older) debian'esque services I've
> set up with LVM, you need to partition manually, and the options you
> need can be hidden off the bottom of the screen, expecially if you're
in
> text mode. But you can
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
>
> As Jim mentioned, there is loads of jargon with logical and physical
> volumes and groups but it does make sense, sorta. It's all based on the
> (old?) HP implementation, which is really handy if you used to
> administer HP-UX servers (:
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 11:41 +1300, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've already posed my problem on the UbuntuForums
> (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1426826 ) but thought I'd post
> here also as responses are much quicker and I'd like to proceed with
> this install before next week...
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a command I can run or file to edit that
> can tell the installer to now put the root file system on /dev/sda5 (the
> logical volume I just formatted) so as the installation can proceed?
With LVM you don't put
