From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] offtopic but ... Message-ID: <20020513073733.B31182@connectlive.com> References: <064b01c1f69a$71b9c100$070414ac@Home.PIN.LU> <94260000.1020868034@[192.168.200.4]> <20020513123901.D12633@azrael.smilehouse.com> <20020513094350.GB864@tykepenguin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020513094350.GB864@tykepenguin.com>; from caulfield@sistina.com on Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:43:50AM +0100 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon May 13 07:37:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > > and remember: RAID is no substitute for backups Sounds good to me... when I contacted Sistina about commercial support for LVM, Mr. Heinz seemed genuinely surprised that I took proper backups. "But that's my job!" Perhaps that's why I have such a job... My father had his laptop stolen recently and the hard drive that was supposed to have been ordered for its docking station, was line-item vetoed by a member of the IT staff at his hospital. Needless to say, said IT guy is now looking for work, and I would not hire him :-) Incremental backups are orthogonal to true high availability, but you're guaranteed to have low availability if you have no disaster recovery plans. I wish there were a more succinct way to express that! -- "The most valuable piece of equipment in the darkroom is the trash can." --Ansel Adams