When the company I work for, a civil engineering and surveying firm, decided to move all its AutoCad drawings onto a central fileserver, we were presented with a backup situation orders of magnitude ...

Maintenance of the storage system is a daily job for system administrators. Linux provides users with a wealth of storage capabilities, and powerful built-in maintenance tools. However, these tools ...

Use vgcfgbackup and vgcfgrestore to back up metadata on LVM Your email has been sent Scott Reeves shows how to use two handy commands to back up and restore volume group metadata on LVM. Two of the ...

</pre><BR><BR>So, in a system-only restore, I only want to restore the volume groups system_base and system_other, and not restore user_base (assume user_base is on a separate set of disks from the ...

Logical Volume Manager (LVM) helps you manage your storage better by introducing a layer of abstraction over your storage hardware. When you’re freed from hardware limitations you can use more than ...

A dependable backup tool is not a luxury - everyone needs to have one. But that doesn't mean you need to spend a fortune to get the feature set that meets your needs. Jack Wallen introduces some great ...