From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lembark@wrkhors.com Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] getting started with LVM Message-ID: <40970000.1022186992@duke> In-Reply-To: <3CED546C.2000401@jumpline.com> References: <3CED546C.2000401@jumpline.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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: Thu May 23 15:53:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com -- Ben Snyder on 05/23/02 16:43:24 -0400 > I am currently doing some research for my employer regarding storage and > backups. We currently use dump as a backup utility due to limited budget. > However, dump has been giving us fits due to lseek errors. > > Someone suggested looking into LVM, so here I am. I looked a the website and > did a little digging, but I was unable to find out if LVM will serve my > purposes. > > If anyone can lend a hand and provide feedback that can tell me if LVM is > worth my effort to solve this problem, or where I can find this sort of > information, I'd be vert greatful. Dumping dump might be the first thing that would help. It's old and tired and deserves a rest... For free utilities you can get better speed and filtering with cpio, which backs up from the file system rather than inodes. At that point LVM is a nice solution for managing anything large enough to be backed up. -- Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647 +1 800 762 1582