[LinuxUsers] Ubuntu 2nd drive: is lvm safe

[Dante Lanznaster]

If you wanna keep it easy, just mount the drive and rsync your data to
it. No need to have special mount/unmount stuff, leave it on fstab to
automount and set up a cron job to back up stuff with rsync.

Personally I'd set up a software RAID setup, which is really easy and safe.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Jeff Lasman <jplists at nobaloney.net> wrote:
> In my recent thread, ubuntu questions, I discussed the problems with
> software RAID on ubuntu.
>
> I'm still interested in using ubuntu for my office desktop system.  I
> back up important data every night to a hard drive connected via usb.
> It's got it's own separate power supply; I mount it, back up to it, and
> unmount it. So maybe I don't even need software RAID.  In which case
> I've got two 500GB drives to use.  (They're brand new drives, Samsung
> HD502IJ)
>
> How about creating a logical volume with LVM, and using the entire TB?
> Safe?
>
> How about using the second drive as just a second storage drive?
>
> How about using it as in-the-system backup, but only mounting it when
> I'm actually doing the backup and then unmounting it?
>
> Safe vs unsafe compared to what I do now (software RAID, nightly
> backups)?  500GB is really enough space for me; on my current system,
> used since Mandriva LE 2005 came out, I've only used 57G of space.
>
> Jeff
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