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Am Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:13:50PM +0000 schrieb Michael: |
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> > > I get the impression Dale isn't actually PLANNING his disk storage. It's |
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> > > just a case of "help I'm downloading all this stuff where do I put it!!!" |
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> > Haha, thanks for the laugh. |
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> Actually this had me thinking what is the need to back up the ... Internet? |
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> I appreciate some of these video files may be rare finds, or there may be a |
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> risk some of these may be taken off the interwebs sooner or later. This |
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> should leave a rather small subset of all downloads, which may merit a local |
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> backup, just in case. I'd thought the availability of higher fiber download |
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> speeds negates the need for local backups, of readily downloadable media. |
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Good points. I am a big fan of having stuff locally as well, because I don’t |
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want to be dependent on a company’s servers and a working Internet connection. |
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But this mostly applies to my mobile device, because I don’t have a data plan |
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for mobile Internet. |
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> > Well, ts uses mpeg2 encoding, just like old video DVDs, which is very |
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> > inefficient when compared with modern h264/h265. Modern digital TV broadcast |
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> > uses h264 by now. |
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> Depending on the PVR make/model I've seen 1080p resolution recordings with |
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> .m2ts and .ts file extensions, while the codecs inside them are the same. |
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I wasn’t aware that ts could contain h264. But then again—I never really |
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bothered with live TV recordings in recent years. These days, if I find |
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something interesting, I download the show form the TV channel’s website |
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(called Mediathek in Germany, a word play on Bibliothek, meaning library). |
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Interestingly though, the picture quality is noticably worse than what I |
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receive via DVB-T. |
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> > ¹ I do have several external USB disks, plus the big NAS. All of which don’t |
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> > run very often. And I don’t want to turn them on just to look for a certain |
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> > file. That’s why I have another little script. ;-) It uses the `tree` |
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> > command to save the complete content listing of a directory into a text |
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> > file and names the file automatically by the name of the directory it |
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> > crawls. So if I want to find a file, I just need to grep through my text |
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> > files. |
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> Backup scripts utilising rsync, tar, etc. can output a log file which contains |
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> (some) details of all the backed up files. Nothing as sophisticated as |
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> Frank's script, but it allows for a quick search against the name of the file |
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> or directory, before extraction. |
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Naturally, I just discovered two bugs in the script while I was re-reading |
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my mail. One of them broke the creation of the symlink which points to the |
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most recent version of a script output. The other prevented normal operation |
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if only gzip was available amongst the used compressors. |
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