Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 04 May 2015 02:39:10 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>>> I wasn't suggesting symlinks, just LVs mounted at appropriate points.
>>> It rather depends on the spread of Dale's data. If he just needs
>>> extra space for his videos, he could get a new drive and mount it at
>>> ~/videos.
>>
>> The bulk of the space is used by the videos.  It's everything from TV
>> shows to movies to youtube howtos.  I'm using roughly 1.8TB on the drive
>> and the videos take up roughly 1.7TB of that space.  My camera pics only
>> use 21GBs of space.  Rest is basically a rounding error.  :/
>
> You need to separate those anyway, for backup purposes. Anything you
> downloaded, you can usually download again, so you only need a list of
> the files to be able to find them again.
>
> On the other hand, you photos are irreplaceable and need to be backed up.

Well, some videos aren't available either.  I'd hate to know I had to
find some of the ones that are available.  Some take some diggin IF I
can even remember some of them.

My pics I backup to DVDs, two sets just in case.  I keep those in a
outbuilding.  If everything here burns, I'm likely gone anyway.


>
> 
>> I really do need to set up RAID at least for some stuff that I may not
>> be able to get back.  Some videos I have are no longer available.
>
> RAID is not a backup solution.

True but at least it would help if a drive fails.  I've been there a
couple times.

>
>
>> What
>> I wish, I had a second puter in a outbuilding that I could copy to over
>> ethernet or something.  May help in the event of a house fire etc.
>
> You have, it's called Amazon S3 :) It's a lot cheaper than a second
> computer, and a lot more reliable.
> 
>


My internet is way to slow for that.  It would take weeks maybe a month
to upload all this stuff.  I have DSL but it is the basic package.  If I
were on cable or had a real fast DSL, maybe.  Thing is, I really don't
want some of my stuff on the internet anyway.  ;-)

I'll come up with something tho.

Dale

:-)  :-)