OT LVM Snapshot for backups (was: Best way to backup cyrus syste)

[Simon Matter]

Jared Watkins schrieb:
> 
> Christian Schulte wrote:
> 
> > Jared Watkins wrote:
> >
> >> I would think you could use LVM the linux volume manager along with
> >> it's snapshot feature.. and then any sort of backup program you
> >> want.  I'm not using this method yet... but I will be soon...  is
> >> anyone else out there running LVM or some other volume manager under
> >> linux in production?
> >>
> >> Jared
> >
> >
> > I have had many many troubles with the linux LVM itself. I would
> > rather suggest using a well configured linux softare raid. This is
> > much more stable than LVM! I lost 250GB because of LVM and did not
> > have a backup. With software raid on linux this would not have
> > happened....
> 
> That's a little vague...   How long ago was this.. and what was going on
> when you had the failure?  Was it an LVM failure.. or something
> related.. like a non redundant dead drive.. or file system issue?
>  Software raid is not exactly a replacement for LVM.. espicially when
> talking about the snapshot feature..

Well, I was using LVM on top of software RAID1/5 and it worked very
well!

Simon