Re: [BackupPC-users] Expanding Disk Capacity

[Estanislao L. M. <es...@gm...>]

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 <tre...@gm...> wrote:

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> On Dec 26, 2011 11:58 AM, "Estanislao López Morgan" <es...@gm...>
> 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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