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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Diego Moore</b> <<a href="mailto:diego.moore@gmail.com">diego.moore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Well thanks Mike and Jon,<br><br>I think I'm going to simplify my approach:<br><br>* Forget RAID<br>* Partition for /boot and swap on SCSI Drive without LVM
<br>* VG for Data (/usr, /var, /svr) using all 3 80Gb IDE drives<br>* VG for remaining System on SCSI<br><br>Great I now also need to look into a backup solution for 240Gb!<br><br>Have I missed anything?<br><br>Ta<br>DM</blockquote>
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<div>I use 3 drives, 3 VG's. One of them is SNAPSHOTS, on which I use rsnapshot to backup the full file system images of the other drives in hardlinked snapshot repositories. Fast, effective, and I have a full file-system to restore from in case someone deletes something, and to restore from when a drive dies.
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<div>This also creates different usage patterns for identical drives, which helps prevent them from all failing at the same time.</div><br> </div>