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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 06/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Frascone</b> <<a href="mailto:frasconebulk@gmail.com">frasconebulk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="q">On Feb 3, 2008 2:31 PM, David Frascone <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:frasconebulk@gmail.com" target="_blank">frasconebulk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">I'd like my "important" stuff to be kinda backed up. Either with raid, or maybe just mirror'ed onto the myth video storage -- just to be safe. I think I should not worry about raid 5 here -- what do you think?<br>
The mythtv video store is not important to me -- I was planning on just buying a couple of 500Gb or so disks. No redundancy.<br></blockquote></span>
<div><br><br>What about disks? Can LVM do what I need? Multiple disks == more power, so I'd like a minimalistic solution that still has some redundancy for my "important" data.<br><br>If there are any LVM experts or linux disk experts here -- I'd like to know if I can have a 40-80Gb disk, mirror'ed onto a partition of a bigger video disk?<br>
<br>That way, I can buy one small disk for boot / os / important files, and one big disk for video + mirror of the important stuff.<br><br>But, every time I mess with LVM it seems really complex. Maybe a better solution is just one big disk, and a nightly rsync to a backup NAS or something?<br>
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<div>Dave,</div>
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<div>Yes LVM can do: 1 small boot disk + 1 big disk (Video + Mirror of small boot disk).</div>
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<div>OR as you say it may be easier for you to do 1 small disk + <a n other backup mechanism> to partion on big disk.</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
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<div>Steve<br> </div>