External USB2.0 HDD disconnect

[Madison Kelly]

Hi, I would only drop to runlevel 1 once to convert the filesystem(s) to 
LVM. After that I would use LVM/snapshot while the server is up.

Madison

Taavi Burns wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:13:13PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> 
>>  I guess the next step then is to make a manual backup, put the server 
>>into init 1 and then change all the filesystems to LVM... -Shoul- be 
>>easy enough... (I know, why don't I just kick Murphy in the arse and see 
>>if he leaves me alone still, too! ;) ).
> 
> 
> If you're dropping to singluser mode, you can just remount the fs to backup
> as read-only (you can even do this for root; /etc/mtab won't reflect the
> change, naturally, since it will be on a ro filesystem).  ;)
> 
> Using an LVM snapshot wouldn't require going down to singleuser.
> 
> With some fast compression you could probably easily fit several backups
> on one matching HD with very little, if any, speed loss.  You really don't
> need to backup empty space, either.


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