From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4458F138CC5 for ; Mon, 4 May 2015 08:23:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA242E08F6; Mon, 4 May 2015 08:23:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qg0-f41.google.com (mail-qg0-f41.google.com [209.85.192.41]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3E3CE0819 for ; Mon, 4 May 2015 08:23:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qgdy78 with SMTP id y78so62259889qgd.0 for ; Mon, 04 May 2015 01:23:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type; bh=CuUeCZ0Ue+Nm6yx1td09i0S1PcT8PMOzyaJs06Knu9o=; b=CqKK6vcTZBQc+3NGw0/aLgJSEsRhZr6p7GaAGhPaeAa331hZv31S0iGsWDKGw/Ijsn aJTHi9URmCbLjHOQEc0NbOystfjjDZGIdblyIRN4pT3JeirxIQzihhMhKdbMtqRn+XME 5sYny3Mn+Q7XRYi/0xu/xFD7P/6zRDfS6SyWbxcLW4Ns1A8IUc48+xlmaXh7Q6kdibpG VwQXBnGauKFKgC2qJfBURXVet66nxGSbcCm5XqURRGOWArpi28Zp6u3LYSD+Q1bpq+Ll e8kZWPzZ8XFM6y1o4FAClhkakCUD24FEw4GbljDJXDh79YH33sVnjE/Ipj0YeOuIAUK3 FtTQ== X-Received: by 10.140.194.141 with SMTP id p135mr27145050qha.44.1430727830058; Mon, 04 May 2015 01:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-106-170.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.106.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 16sm17575812qhd.11.2015.05.04.01.23.48 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 04 May 2015 01:23:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55472C94.1080606@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 03:23:48 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 SeaMonkey/2.32 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions References: <553F474E.4040101@gmail.com> <553FA0DD.1090101@gmail.com> <20150428162448.160e1683@digimed.co.uk> <55407695.7000808@gmail.com> <20150429085217.38864030@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <5547221E.4020809@gmail.com> <20150504084626.26fbbbd8@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20150504084626.26fbbbd8@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------050808040309090606000708" X-Archives-Salt: 9e03a16f-dcb5-4c26-bd62-bd9c83d0ce22 X-Archives-Hash: 6d94406ab641dd36e7e25fb6bb8f30fb This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050808040309090606000708 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 dri= ve >> and the videos take up roughly 1.7TB of that space. My camera pics on= ly >> 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 u= p. 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. > >=20 >> 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 ove= r >> 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. >=20 > 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 :-) :-) --------------050808040309090606000708 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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

:-)  :-)

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