Andy Smith wrote:
now we're studying how to get a good enough backup. After discarding LVM snapshots and stopping the mail server, Our options seem to be:may I ask why you discarded the LVM snapshots? any problems with that approach?I've found them extremely unstable producing frequent kernel-space lockups and it appea2.6.8-2-686-smps to be something that the LVM chaps at Red Hat are actively working on.
With LVM / 2.6.8-2-686-smp / reiserfsWe had kernel panics every 24 hours or so, when we took LVM out of the picture, the kernel panics stopped.
We feel a little guilty about not digging deeper and filing decent bug reports but...