-- Ben Snyder <ben@jumpline.com> on 05/23/02 16:43:24 -0400
> I am currently doing some research for my employer regarding storage and
> backups. We currently use dump as a backup utility due to limited budget.
> However, dump has been giving us fits due to lseek errors.
>
> Someone suggested looking into LVM, so here I am. I looked a the website and
> did a little digging, but I was unable to find out if LVM will serve my
> purposes.
>
> If anyone can lend a hand and provide feedback that can tell me if LVM is
> worth my effort to solve this problem, or where I can find this sort of
> information, I'd be vert greatful.
Dumping dump might be the first thing that would help. It's
old and tired and deserves a rest... For free utilities you
can get better speed and filtering with cpio, which backs
up from the file system rather than inodes. At that point
LVM is a nice solution for managing anything large enough to
be backed up.
--
Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer
Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647
+1 800 762 1582
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