On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > > At 12:44 25/07/02, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > > It's one database, and it's huge.
> >
> > ... and backups of your database are done on...?
>
> LVM snapshot + rsync to an identical machine elsewhere ?
Works fine until you find a nasty bug in (identical) firmware.
<cue story about RAID5 built out of a bunch of Seagates; a year later
6 disks out of 16 went to hell during a weekend - ones that had
serial numbers within a $SMALLNUM from each other>
And that's aside of the "wisdom" of using LVM...
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