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 :-) :-)
