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

[Christian Schulte]

Paul M Fleming wrote:

>I've been using software RAID under Linux w/ Cyrus for almost 5 years..
>My recommendation -- don't. We're switching to hardware RAID 5. It costs
>-- a lot for good hardware, but in the end it is worth it. Most of my
>problems w/ the machines has been related to the software raid. 
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>Brian wrote:
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>>Christian Schulte said:
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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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>>So the problem was that you didn't have backups rather than a fault of the
>>LVM, right?
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>>Brian
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I switched to hardware raid also and everything is greater than ever 
before....