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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> [14-06-24 20:00]: |
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> On 24/06/2014 19:32, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> [14-06-24 19:12]: |
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> >> On 24/06/2014 16:43, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> >>> Hi, |
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> >>> I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0, with 1 TByte each |
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> >>> (no SSD - the good ole mechanical ones...;). |
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> >>> The intended use is for backup of longer files. The drives will |
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> >>> contain the same contents. |
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> >>> Currently there are still "clean metal" (no partitioning, no fs). |
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> >>> Data integrity and recoverability (Uhhh...that words looks wrong...) in |
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> >>> case of an desaster is more important than speed. |
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> >>> What is the recommended way of partitioning ? |
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> >>> What filesystem to choose? |
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> >>> Thank you very much in advance for any help! |
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> >>> Best regards, |
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> >>> mcc |
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> >>> PS: Running vanilla kernel 3.15.1.... |
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> >> You haven't given much in the way of detail, so I assume you have |
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> >> regular needs, nothing fancy, and it's all a bunch of files right? |
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> >> In that case, partitioning and filesystem type are largely irrelevant as |
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> >> long as you don't have corruption. With one caveat: |
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> >> You must always make sure the source drive is intact and ok. If not, and |
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> >> you back it up anyway, then you are already toast (you will overwrite |
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> >> your last backup with new faulty data). |
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> >> There's several approaches to how to do the transfer: |
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> >> If you have say a general fileserver with lots of files that don't |
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> >> change much or often, just rsync everything in one go. There is no |
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> >> optimization you can do that will perform much faster than rsync. |
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> >> If you have a big busy filesystem that changes often and lots, then use |
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> >> lvm (or anything that can make snapshots) and rsync that. |
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> >> If you have a huge database where everything is changing all the time, |
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> >> don't do filesystem copies, use the tools provided by the db vendor. I |
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> >> doubt this is your need as you would have said so, but it's worth |
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> >> mentioning. |
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> >> -- |
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> >> Alan McKinnon |
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> >> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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> > Hi Alan, |
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> > thanks for your reply! :) |
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> > Yes...your are right. I have a lot static (=not changing) data on my |
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> > harddisk...mostly things like video tutorials (blender), videos of |
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> > birds I filmed, dokuments and such... |
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> > They are eating up the space on my systems harddisk. |
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> > Do I decided to put them on a extern hd and an identical copy on |
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> > another identical external harddisk. |
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> > Its mainly a task of updateing the data on the external drives with |
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> > that what is new (and static and big and falls under what I described |
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> > above) on my systems harddisk. |
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> > I will check rsync for that! |
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> That changes things just a little bit - I thought your two drives were |
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> going to be one for live and one for backup. Do you intend to move these |
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> files off your main drive onto the identical externals, or just copy the |
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> files? |
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> I would have those two external drives using different filesystems, just |
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> in case as they are your only copy and external drives are fragile in |
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> use and in storage. Exact fs type doesn't really matter - ext4 and xfs, |
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> or ext* and btrfs, it's all good. |
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> Just do make sure you don't use rsync with --delete for this :-) |
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> -- |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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Yes, I will delete the data from my systems drive... |
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You wrote: |
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"I would have those two external drives using different filesystems" |
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Different to what? Different to the fs on the system drive? Both |
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external drives use different filesystems? All three use different |
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filesystems? |
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And how can this help, if the drives are fragile? (I understand |
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"fragile" as "mechanical not robust" (sorry I am no native english |
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speaker)) |
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I will use this "mobile disks" not really as the word "mobile" implies. They |
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will only "travel" manually between a secure place and my PC. |
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When in use, they will rest on the floor of the room (so they can not |
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be dropped) and _under_ the case of my PC (ole school big tower metal |
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case with a gap between the bottom of the case and the floor of the |
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room.) |