i agree absolutely with steve here, expanding venture arena by arena is easy, the ventibackup scripts show you how. even easier is to add arenas on a different disk partition to the same venti.
personally i wouldn't keep music or videos in venti. they don't compress well using the arithmetic techniques in venti and the de duplication is unlikely to be a win either. just put them on a separate mirrored partition. i wrote a doc called venti rescue which details replacing disks and rebuilding your venti. it may be of help. -Steve > On 20 Oct 2016, at 19:41, Steven Stallion <sstall...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:15 PM, <cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org> wrote: >> Steven Stallion <sstall...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Sizing venti is also simple. >> >> I disagree with this. The best way to configure venti depends largely >> on how you plan to use it. I have multiple venti servers configured for >> different uses. For example, I keep my DVD images on a different venti >> server than I do for smaller, more frequently-used files such as mail. > > see venti(8); there's plenty of advice on configuring your store with > rough estimations for an initial conf file. Once you decide your > geometry, it's trivial to extend the number of arenas in the store, > just remember to reindex. > >> I don't know that to be true. If the source and destination volumes are >> the same size, yes, it's easy to just dd the arenas. But if you're >> relocating to a smaller/larger partition, what would be an easy way to >> do that? > > see venti-backup(8).
