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On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:38:02AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > recently, I acquired a 1TB SATA drive for home as an addition to my > existing 160GB drive. Obviously, the proper way to set things up are to > have 2 identical drives. I do back up my system daily to a USB drive, > but I would just like some recommendations before I move to Fedora 11. > I do have enough space on a USB drive to back up everything important > (such as /home, and my virtual machines) so I can do a complete reformat > if necessary. > But, what I would like to do is to continue to use my 160GB as my > primary drive (currently set up as LVM), and install fedora 11 onto the > new drive. I currently have 1 137G volume group on the 160 GB drive. Can > I simply allocate a 137GB volume group on the 1TB drive to use as a > mirror for the 137VG on the 160. > > Or, would I be better off starting from scratch when I install Fedora > 11, use the 1TB drive as the boot drive and set up multiple volume > groups, or simply just rely on my existing daily backups. You could do any of these things, but you might be happiest allocating 200GB or so of the new disk as a filesystem to use as a repository for rsnapshot. rsnapshot can provide you with multiple revisions of whatever happens on your 137GB volume, in an easier-to-access form than LVM's snapshotting capabilities. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it.
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