On Friday 27 Sep 2013, Ally Biggs wrote: > Al just out of curiosity what kind of back up or redundancy do you have in > place? Need to get a few ideas myself.
I use rsnapshot onto another machine, which is running on a raid/mirror pair. Things that are really important are also rnapshotted to an external drive and DVD. Not perfect but it has saved me when I deleted files I didn't intend to, or when a disk in the server started to go bad. > Cheers > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 27 Sep 2013, at 09:41, "Alan Pope" <a...@popey.com> wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > > > On 27 September 2013 08:58, Dr A. J. Trickett <adam.trick...@iredale.net> wrote: > >> The "bulk" files will probably be VM disk images (multi GB), photos > >> (many-many multi MB), some video files (iPlayer and DVB recordings), > >> ISO files (not that many but some). Most of these will be written once > >> and read now and then but not change a lot - the VM files will change > >> the most when in use. > >> > >> Any thoughts on combinations, and file system layout? > > > > On my desktop I went for SSD for / and 1TB spinning rust for /home. I > > found the 120GB / wasn't used well so I moves some VMs and that makes > > for much better use of space, with the speed improvement too. I just > > don't worry about space anymore now rust is cheap. > > > > On my Thinkpad laptop I put two SSDs in (one conventional, one mSATA) > > and dual boot. > > > > When I go back to rust on my other laptop or family computer it feels > > painful after getting used to SATA :( > > > > Cheers, > > Al. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. -- John Maynard Keynes
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