It's about sixteen shortcuts. I could do it in three shortcuts, if it was just one shortcut per physical device, but I've split each of those into multiple shortcuts for two reasons: - make mirroring to external devices one-to-one (some of my external drives aren't as large as the internal plus each physical drive has a couple of "new rips" folders, matching categories below - the new rips get copied nightly to a single, attached external drive, things get consolidated and re copied every couple of months - easier access from the squeezebox web ui "home / music folder"
The notion in the first is that, if an internal drive fails, I can just mount the matching external drives, change where the shortcuts point, and I'm up and running. And I've got a mess of 500G drives. three'll backup a 1.5TB drive - not buying a second 1.5T leaves me an extra hundred bucks to spend on music :-) The notion in the second is that, well, it can be overwhelming trying to get to a particular album if a folder has more than 1K or so albums in it. Or at least this was true in the 6.x server - haven't tried more than two levels of folder hierarchy (i.e. shortcut->folder->album folders) in 7. That make any sense? You're welcome to tell me I'm totally whacked - it'll just confirm my suspicions :-) Oh - I wouldn't manage data on a business server this way, that -would- be whacked. There, for every 1G in internal storage, there'd be at least three external backup drives (or maybe two plus a cloud backup) -- bobkoure ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bobkoure's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69651 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
