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Duncan wrote: |
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> What I do is take the opportunity to redesign my partition layouts and |
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> the like (altho this time I have most stuff on LVM, which should help |
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> next time). |
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This is good advice in general. If you have never used LVM look into |
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it. Once your partitions are on LVM it is VERY easy to migrate them to |
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a new drive. You can do it while the system is running as a matter of fact. |
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Ditto for raid. I don't know that it is really essential in all cases, |
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but I've got a mythtv setup with the better part of 1TB of storage, so I |
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migrated it to software raid. It isn't worth the money to come up with |
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an offsite backup solution for TV shows, but I'd rather not lose |
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everything if one of my multitude of hard drives fails either. So I use |
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RAID5 to cover drive failures, and I do offsite backups of selected |
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files of higher value (a few GB). |
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