[mythtvnz] Intro/Background

[Barry Clearwater]

If you are able to backup regularly, LVM has the upside of when you add
storage its trivial to increase what you have, fwiw though I believe
this works best with a raid configuration as a base, so RAID1 gives a
mirrored drive and extra security over your data.  The number of hard
drives I have replaced this year with totally unrecoverable contents
(without a trip to a USA clean room ~US$4000) astounds me.

Barry

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 11:08 +1200, Matt Poff wrote:
> Hadley Rich wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:51:04 Matt Crampton wrote:
> >   
> >> At the moment, I bought another 320GB HDD to put in, but am debating
> >> whether to do a clean install with Fiesty (Ubuntu 7.04) or keep what I've
> >> got. Also wanting to setup LVM as well, so I can add more hard drives over
> >> time, as the case can hold upto 6 and it's got enough SATA connections
> >> onboard.
> >>     
> >
> >   
> I'm running on a fresh install of Feisty 7.04 and was convinced away 
> from using LVM towards the storage groups approach by online docs. The 
> reason was that if a HD fails it sounded far from trivial to replace it 
> and maintain the LVM volume. Storage groups were more like a lizard's 
> tail... just grow another one and resume :)
> 
> 
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