On Saturday 09 August 2014 11.11:08 Gary Dale wrote: > > To preserve your archive, I'd advise PAR2 redundancy files to fix any > problems that may crop up. So long as your HD copies are good, you don't > need to go to the PAR2 files, but should one develop a problem, you can > fix it with the PAR2 files. Having 5% to 10% redundancy is a lot cheaper > than RAID1. > > You can automate the PAR2 creation by checking for new files and > creating PAR2s for them.
Thank you all for the great ideas and opinions. I've decided to use only one internal ext4 partition w/o any RAID for the photos together with par2 for the anti-bit rot plus the external backup. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/7613649.RF3m1Bm1Vz@yucca