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

[Christian Schulte]

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....