Time Nick Message 03:14 agoddard pdurbin: hey hey, sorry busy day again. Yep, the responses were awesome, thanks again for putting the word out. The general gist of it confirmed that avoiding raid5 was a good idea (bad write perf + terrible read when degraded), didn't touch on raid 50/60 at all, but in my case there wasn't a huge space benefit anyway. The ideal method seems to be either one big RAID10 array backing the volume gro 03:14 agoddard up, or a series of RAID1's and then having LVM manage the striping on LV creation. 03:15 agoddard I'm going with the former, though in my case the controller only allows 16 disks/ 8 spans with RAID10, so I'm presenting two RAID10 arrays and adding them both to the Volume Group 03:15 agoddard At some point I'm thinking I'll play with the block sizes of them and see what difference it makes, if I ever get time to play with http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2011/06/09/aligning-io-on-a-hard-disk-raid-the-theory/ 03:16 JoeJulian Have you documented your findings somewhere? 13:16 ventz anyone here use/have experience w/ rsnapshots 13:17 ventz i've been having a really annoying problem lately 13:17 ventz Ive been using it for >10 years and until now, no issues 13:18 ventz I keep getting: 13:18 ventz /bin/cp: cannot create hard link `/backup/server/hourly.1/home/user/.vim/backup/readme.txt.bak' to `/backup/server/hourly.1/home/user/.vim/backup/readme.txt.bak': No such file or directory 13:18 ventz ERROR: /bin/cp failed. Perhaps this is not GNU cp? 13:18 ventz ERROR: Error! cp_al("/backup/server/hourly.0/", "/backup/server/hourly.1/")