[LinuxUsers] Ubuntu 2nd drive: is lvm safe

[Jeff Lasman]

On Monday 16 February 2009 12:10 pm, Dante Lanznaster wrote:

> 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.

Then I'd have to keep at least one other offsite backup; maybe I need 
to, anyway.  And because we keep multiple backups I backup to a 
tarball; I didn't make that clear previously.  Until I actually fill up 
the drive with tarballs I'll have room for more than one backup in case 
I do something stupid.

Unmounting a drive is a lot safer imho, but maybe I'm wrong.  It's part 
of a script and only takes a small part of a second.

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

I would too ... and then use external backup via usb. In fact that was 
my first choice, but until I figured out how to make software RAID work 
(see my other posts) it didn't appear to be an option.  I've got it set 
up now.

Thanks!

Jeff

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