said Greg Madden via tde-users: | https://www.system-rescue.org/lvm-guide-en/Making-consistent-backups-wit |h-LVM/ does most/all of your needs. Snapshots..way cool. Okay, I'm about half sold. Have spent a while doing some reading on LVM, which provided some information but not much about what I sought to know. (Has anyone else noticed the rubbish the search engines have become? When I search "adding LVM to an existing system," I get pages of description about adding a drive to an existing LVM.) So: can LVM be added to an existing system, or is it like RAID, which needs to be installed from the get go? Also, while a nifty backup method is way cool, my goal is having two identical boot drives and the ability to boot from one in the event of the other's failure. That is the beginning, middle, and end of it. At this point, the most straightforward way seems to be installing the NVMe SSD, installing Linux on it from scratch, telling it that home is ~/ on the other drive, and once all done copying the system from the existing drive to the SSD. This would handle UUID, all the stuff the bios wants, and so on. Then once every week or two booting into the secondary drive so as to apply such updates as were applied to the primary one during the intervening time. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
