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My  pool file system is growing every day and I need to expand my disk capacity on my backup server. I already have a 1.5TB hard disk. I have been studing this subjet for a couple of weeks, and change my storage scheme to LVM (for example) seems to be the better choice. Someone have ever done that? It is necesary to reinstall all the backuppc server in the new storage scheme?


Thanks in advance


Estanislao

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Estanislao López Morgan
<estanux < at > gmail.com> wrote:

My  pool file system is growing every day and I need to expand my disk
capacity on my backup server. I already have a 1.5TB hard disk. I have been
studing this subjet for a couple of weeks, and change my storage scheme to
LVM (for example) seems to be the better choice. Someone have ever done
that? It is necesary to reinstall all the backuppc server in the new storage
scheme?


With disk storage cost going down drastically over the years, I've
always just replaced the old set with new ones with at least twice the
capacity, started from scratch, and kept the old set around until the
new ones accumulated as much history as I thought I'd need. But, I
like to use raid1 sets so you can recover all the content from a
single working drive.

--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell < at > gmail.com

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Dne 26.12.2011 18:54, Estanislao López Morgan napsal(a):
Dear BackupPc's friends,


My pool file system is growing every day and I need to expand my disk
capacity on my backup server. I already have a 1.5TB hard disk. I have
been studing this subjet for a couple of weeks, and change my storage
scheme to LVM (for example) seems to be the better choice. Someone have
ever done that? It is necesary to reinstall all the backuppc server in
the new storage scheme?


I always keep the data partition as last in the drive. When it fills up,
I copy the old drive to a new larger drive with dd, resize the data
partition and the filesystem. This way I have been expanding capacity of
the original installation for many years.

In fact I do not use single drives and dd, but a bit more complicated
raid setup, but the principle is the same - increasing the data
partition first and growing its filesystem.

Best regards,

Pavel.

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On Dec 26, 2011 11:58 AM, "Estanislao López Morgan" <estanux < at > gmail.com ([email]estanux < at > gmail.com[/email])> wrote:

Dear BackupPc's friends,


My  pool file system is growing every day and I need to expand my disk capacity on my backup server. I already have a 1.5TB hard disk. I have been studing this subjet for a couple of weeks, and change my storage scheme to LVM (for example) seems to be the better choice. Someone have ever done that? It is necesary to reinstall all the backuppc server in the new storage scheme?

Thanks in advance

Estanislao




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Going from non-LVM to LVM would be good.  With new disks create a LVM partion and dd your data to it.  Then you can add the old disk to that LVM and expand it.  There is a flag with LVM resize that will also resize the filesystem.

Thanks a lot! I am going to try the migration to LVM scheme.

Regards

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Trey Dockendorf <treydock < at > gmail.com ([email]treydock < at > gmail.com[/email])> wrote:


On Dec 26, 2011 11:58 AM, "Estanislao López Morgan" <estanux < at > gmail.com ([email]estanux < at > gmail.com[/email])> wrote:

Dear BackupPc's friends,


My  pool file system is growing every day and I need to expand my disk capacity on my backup server. I already have a 1.5TB hard disk. I have been studing this subjet for a couple of weeks, and change my storage scheme to LVM (for example) seems to be the better choice. Someone have ever done that? It is necesary to reinstall all the backuppc server in the new storage scheme?

Thanks in advance

Estanislao






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Going from non-LVM to LVM would be good.  With new disks create a LVM partion and dd your data to it.  Then you can add the old disk to that LVM and expand it.  There is a flag with LVM resize that will also resize the filesystem.
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