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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 04:42:17 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>> P. S. What is a good way to back up something this large BESIDES |
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>> another drive the same size or larger? |
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> A smaller drive, backups can be compressed. Also, you don't need to |
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> backup everything, for example rips of DVDs and CDs you own can be |
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> recreated. If you organise your data to separate stuff that needs to be |
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> backed up from that which doesn't you can reduce the amount of space |
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> needed. |
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> Factor in that you won't be filling this drive for a while and that you |
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> don't need maximum performance from a backup drive and you'll almost |
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> certainly get by with using your old drive(s). |
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> Really important stuff should be stored offsite, Amazon S3 gives the best |
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> value for me. |
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What I have on there is videos. When I tried to compress some and test, |
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it was basically the same size. I guess videos don't compress to much? |
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When I put this in, I'm going to redo the whole thing. Ages ago when I |
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was green all over and not just around the gills, I created a /data |
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directory and that is where I stored "stuff". My new plan, the new |
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drive will become /home and I will be putting things where they should |
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have been to begin with. I plan to reorganize this whole mess I created |
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ages ago. That video directory is HUGE tho. |
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root@fireball / # du -shc /data/Videos/ |
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703G /data/Videos/ |
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703G total |
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root@fireball / # |
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While I am at it. You should have a good answer for this one. What is |
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a good file system for this sort of thing? I been using ext4 but it |
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sure does use a lot of space for its overhead. As far as files go, most |
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will likely be videos. I do have other files but when compared to the |
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number of videos, they are close to nothing. The files system for the |
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current 1Tb, spread across two drives with LVM, uses about 75Gbs for the |
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file system thingy. That's a pretty good bit to me. I may lose more |
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than 200Gbs on this 3Tb drive. O_O |
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Thanks. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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