[plug] removable media backup drives

[Daniel]

Hi Plug,
more a follow up question than a contribution I'm afraid:
Is LVM a workable solution for backup?  Is anyone using it successfully?

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO-2.html
2. What is LVM?
"As a very special treat, LVM can even make 'snapshots' of itself which 
enable you to make backups of a non-moving target. We return to this 
exciting possibility, which has lots of other real-world applications, 
later on. "

Cheers.
Daniel.

At 07:09 19/03/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>Which drives handle that? IDE can get *very* upset when hot
>swapped by anything other a combo sync/umount/sleep - and
>even then the system doesn't like it much.
>
>Could you forward a link to the list for the scripts? Either
>way, I wouldn't mind seeing if I've missed something.
>
>Craig Foster
>fostware at iinet.net.au
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: news [mailto:news at mail.magikweb.net]On Behalf Of
> > Jeremy Malcolm
> > Sent: Monday, 18 March 2002 10:14 PM
> > To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > Subject: Re: [plug] removable media backup drives
> >
> > Consider just using IDE HDDs in removable caddies.  If you
> > know what you're doing, you can hot-swap those for backup.
> > That's the main way that we do backups in my office and
> > we have also implemented it for clients.  We wrote some
> > scripts to help us which I can send to you.


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