On Friday 15 May 2009 21:03:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.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).
Terry Pratchett says the chance of a million to one event happening is 9 / 10. LVM is really kewl iff you do frequent (daily) backups. Otherwise we await your plainted cry about how you lost 100 zigabytes of unique photos ... james -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
