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

[Patrick Boutilier]

I have been using LVM since version 0.6 and I have had no problems with it.

My Cyrus mail store runs on LVM.



Christian Schulte wrote:
> Jared Watkins wrote:
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>> 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
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> 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....
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