From: Ben Snyder <ben@jumpline.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] getting started with LVM
Date: Thu May 23 15:57:01 2002 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CED5725.8070006@jumpline.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 40970000.1022186992@duke
Something I probably should have mentioned....due to some software we
use to serve our customers, we have hard links - TONS of them. We
looked at cpio, but cpio does not restore hardlinks correctly, dump
will. We also looked at tar, 'star', dd, just about anything to take
the data from one device/filesystem to another.
Thanks for the feedback though.
lembark@wrkhors.com wrote:
>
>-- Ben Snyder <ben@jumpline.com> 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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-23 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-23 15:46 [linux-lvm] getting started with LVM Ben Snyder
2002-05-23 15:53 ` lembark
2002-05-23 15:57 ` Ben Snyder [this message]
2002-05-23 16:11 ` Lewis Bergman
2002-05-23 21:11 ` Wolfgang Weisselberg
2002-05-24 4:02 ` William Blunn
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