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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! |