Linux System Engineer: Advanced Disk Systems and System Backup

Master disk systems and system backup techniques for Linux.

Introduction

• Manage server storage with Linux
• What you should know
• OS installation
• Lab setup
• Install Guest Additions

1. Manage and Partition Disks

• List, create, and delete partitions on MBR and GPT disks
• Create parititons using Parted
• Backup the partition table
• Resize partitions without losing data

2. Manage Logical Volumes

• Manage LVM volumes and volume groups
• Extend existing logical volumes
• Reduce existing logical volumes
• Replace a physical volume

3. Use Logical Volume Snapshots

• About LVM snapshots
• Create LVM roll forward snapshots for backups
• Create LVM rollback snapshots

4. Manage Linux File Systems

• Create EXT file systems
• Migrate EXT3 to EXT4
• Repair EXT file systems
• EXT optimizations
• Create and repair XFS file systems
• Using System Storage Manager
• Mount file systems at boot by ID or label

5. Manage Swap

• Create additional swap partitions
• Create temporary swap files
• Auto-enable swap partitions
• Change system swapiness

6. Create RAID arrays

• MDRAID or DMRAID?
• Create an LVM RAID 1
• Create an LVM RAID 5

7. Back Up and Restore

• Backup and restore an EXT file system
• Archive files
• Compress files

Conclusion

• Next steps