Do you lose everything when you have a hard disk failure in a multi-hard disk LVM that does NOT use RAID?

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Published on 2011-03-01T13:48:27Z Indexed on 2011/03/01 15:26 UTC
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I'm debating about using LVM for a media/file server because I would like to combine multiple physical hard disks into one volume. I do not wish to use any RAID in my LVM so my question is:

If one of the multiple hard disks in my volume were to go down would I lose all my data or would I just lose the data that was stored on that individual disk?

Also, if I were to just lose the data on the individual disk, would it be as simple as replacing that disk and restoring what was on it from a backup to recover?

Thanks everyone.

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