On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 03:25:03PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Timothy J Massey <tmas...@obscorp.com> wrote: > > > > (And while I'm thinking of it: 1TB of total space for 500GB of > > target backup space is... interesting. I assume you want more > > than one backup for a time-based history? (I usually default to > > between 12 and 16 copies to cover 120 or so days of time.) Yes, > > BackupPC has pooling, but I would not want to put in a new > > solution that has a significant amount less than 50% growth > > capacity on day one...) > > I usually see 30-60% compression, plus some savings from files > duplicated in different locations with subsequent growth only being > the changes over the history you keep. But, especially with SATA I'd > go with 2 or 3TB since they don't cost much more.
But didn't the op say a lot of files were images? jpeg or png don't compress well. The iso's may depending on what's on them. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/