Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 04:42:17 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> P. S. What is a good way to back up something this large BESIDES >> another drive the same size or larger? > A smaller drive, backups can be compressed. Also, you don't need to > backup everything, for example rips of DVDs and CDs you own can be > recreated. If you organise your data to separate stuff that needs to be > backed up from that which doesn't you can reduce the amount of space > needed. > > Factor in that you won't be filling this drive for a while and that you > don't need maximum performance from a backup drive and you'll almost > certainly get by with using your old drive(s). > > Really important stuff should be stored offsite, Amazon S3 gives the best > value for me. > >
What I have on there is videos. When I tried to compress some and test, it was basically the same size. I guess videos don't compress to much? When I put this in, I'm going to redo the whole thing. Ages ago when I was green all over and not just around the gills, I created a /data directory and that is where I stored "stuff". My new plan, the new drive will become /home and I will be putting things where they should have been to begin with. I plan to reorganize this whole mess I created ages ago. That video directory is HUGE tho. root@fireball / # du -shc /data/Videos/ 703G /data/Videos/ 703G total root@fireball / # While I am at it. You should have a good answer for this one. What is a good file system for this sort of thing? I been using ext4 but it sure does use a lot of space for its overhead. As far as files go, most will likely be videos. I do have other files but when compared to the number of videos, they are close to nothing. The files system for the current 1Tb, spread across two drives with LVM, uses about 75Gbs for the file system thingy. That's a pretty good bit to me. I may lose more than 200Gbs on this 3Tb drive. O_O Thanks. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
