Andrew Savory lists@andrewsavory.com wrote:
Anyone else uncomfortable with the use of the words "LVM, RAID" in a sentence about normal backup methods?
I think your parser is buggy. The sentence is no more about "normal backup methods" than it is about "Anyone". Indeed, "Anyone" is nearer the top of the phrase structure tree. Maybe "and" would have been better than "or" there but I don't think it was that different here. Please take that level of debate to alt.syntax.tactical
That said, I probably missed some context. Clever tricks with LVM snapshots and RAID mirroring can be used to prepare a device for backup, as has been previously discussed. That was definitely at a Norwich meeting and I think on this list shortly after.
Alone, they're better than rsyncing to another disk on the same machine (avoids the old changing-files-during-copy problem) but a little worse than rsyncing to another machine in the same facility. I agree it's not a proper backup, so you're shouting against an imagined point yet again...