[BLU/Officers] in situ backups

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On 06/18/2011 10:58 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> While I like the idea of an in-situ backup, it does not make any sense
> for Pegasus. I could probably run a nightly backup on my system.
> We are currently at 91% on /var (but we have some free space on the
> Volume Group). But we have an unused 200GB on each of the remaining
> space on the 300GB drives.
> I have not heard from JABR today, but logwatch is reporting drive full.
> I have to go out for a while, but If I don't get a response from JABR, I
> will expand the /var logical volume to get the utilization down.
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/PegasusVG-Root
>                       9.5G  5.4G  3.6G  61% /
> /dev/mapper/PegasusVG-Var
>                       3.8G  3.3G  365M  91% /var
> /dev/mapper/PegasusVG-Local
>                       248M   16M  220M   7% /usr/local
> /dev/mapper/PegasusVG-Home
>                        37G   30G  5.0G  86% /home
> /dev/mapper/PegasusVG-Opt
>                       1.2G  446M  701M  39% /opt
> /dev/md0               99M   33M   61M  35% /boot
> tmpfs                 6.9G     0  6.9G   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sdb3             208G  1.5G  196G   1% /archive1
> /dev/sdc3             208G  188M  197G   1% /archive2
> 
> /dev/md1 is currently about 68GB. What I would like to do is to create
> another VG and RAID1 on the 2 300GB drives and move /home and /var. and
> use /dev/md1 for root and swap.

Thanks for looking into that.  My checkhealth script has been catching
the drive full issued, but since everyone already knew about it (and
JABR said he was working on it), I didn't bring it up.