I know, I know... it's off the lists topic! But I need some help. Probably I am going to "migrate" soon all of my stuff in a new linux-box. So I would like to collect best practice tips concerning the following:
OS: OK, I think I shouldn't ask about which OS since foss runs on everything (right?). But are I am curious to know if there are any advantages using Debian instead of Ubuntu for example? Filesystems: Which filesystem is better(=safer/faster) for data storage? Is there any important advantage to choose XFS for example rather than ext3? Partitions: Do you keep your geo-data in a separate partition? I suppose yes. Have you split further your partition based on other criteria, always related with "working with geospatial data"? Do you keep all of your source code in a separate partition maybe? Organisation: GRASS takes care to organise the data inside the GIS data-base and its fantastic. But what about the "raw" data? How do you organise them? Manually everything? Any tool to be more productive? BackUp: How often do you backup your data? Do you just copy or do you compress as well? What is safer? Other: Any other important issues when setting-up a new foss-geo-box? Thank you, Nikos P.S. Maybe we can add a new wiki-page if something useful comes out of this thread. Or maybe not... :-) _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
