2009/5/15 <fos...@tpg.com.au> > Quoting Adrian Chadd <adr...@creative.net.au>: > > > On Thu, May 14, 2009, fos...@tpg.com.au wrote: > > > ... > > > Lessons learnt: > > - a journalling file system is bigger than what you see, 3Tb is really > 3.3Tb when doing a direct copy. > > - Get lots of harddisk in the beginning. 750G drives really only give > you 698G. It is annoying to be 300G short and have to go to the shop > again. > > - Expect lots of wait time, hard errors on raid take a long time to > give up. > > - Don't promise anything, expect it to fail. > > - LVM is really cool and well worth the time to rad up on it. I am now > going to LVM my home system. > > I'm planning to do this as well. I was thinking back to Mary's backup post last year and thinking if I could do lvm snapshots with an external harddrive. Still a bit new to lvm though. I think you have to install the alternate ubuntu cd to get lvm right? (unless you are using the server install instead of the desktop).
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