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

[Jared Watkins]

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..