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On Mon, 04 May 2015 02:39:10 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> > I wasn't suggesting symlinks, just LVs mounted at appropriate points. |
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> > It rather depends on the spread of Dale's data. If he just needs |
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> > extra space for his videos, he could get a new drive and mount it at |
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> > ~/videos. |
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> The bulk of the space is used by the videos. It's everything from TV |
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> shows to movies to youtube howtos. I'm using roughly 1.8TB on the drive |
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> and the videos take up roughly 1.7TB of that space. My camera pics only |
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> use 21GBs of space. Rest is basically a rounding error. :/ |
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You need to separate those anyway, for backup purposes. Anything you |
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downloaded, you can usually download again, so you only need a list of |
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the files to be able to find them again. |
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On the other hand, you photos are irreplaceable and need to be backed up. |
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> I really do need to set up RAID at least for some stuff that I may not |
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> be able to get back. Some videos I have are no longer available. |
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RAID is not a backup solution. |
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> What |
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> I wish, I had a second puter in a outbuilding that I could copy to over |
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> ethernet or something. May help in the event of a house fire etc. |
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You have, it's called Amazon S3 :) It's a lot cheaper than a second |
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computer, and a lot more reliable. |
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