Data storage

Managing physical drives

How to combine multiple drives into a single volume?

• LVM: Flexible (e.g. different drive sizes), no redundancy, simple
• RAID: Redundant, availability, performance

Data backup

• System Backup: Incremental, pull-based, requiring an independent server
• User Backup: Incremental, push-based, cloud-storage compatible
  • Restic
  • Kopia