I've been using dirvish for many years and my external backup drive (a nominal 500G with fdisk -l reporting capacity as 465.8G) is getting full. In fact, a couple of weeks ago it ran out of room so I deleted the most ancient directories so it's now at 95% capacity. (I don't recall every needing to restore a file or directory from a backup more than a week in the past.)
I now have a new 2T Hitachi drive. Looking on the dirvish web site the link to the old guide cannot find that page, and I don't recall how to set up the replacement drive. My questions: 1. The current server (to be replaced Real Soon Now) uses ext3. Can the backup drive be formatted using ext4? 2. The current server has multiple partitions (a remnant from the mid- to late-1990s); the vault has these mount points: # ls /mnt/hd/ lost+found/ salmo-home/ salmo-root/ salmo-var/ salmo-boot/ salmo-opt/ salmo-usr/ The new server will have have /, /home, /root, /boot, /opt, and /data on two drives. 3. Is there a better scheme for the vault? How about adding a / directory? What advice do you computer professionals have for me germane to dirvish and replacing the backup drive? TIA, Rich _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
