The fires in California got me thinking about my image storage and backup requirements. I thought, what if I had to leave my house and only had a few minutes to get the family to safety? All my kids' and family pictures are stored digitally and I worry about losing them to natural disaster or some other tragedy including computer crashes. So here is my latest scheme:
All my images (I only have 95GB stored currently) are on one 320GB SATA drive on my Windows XP Pro box for editing in PSCS3. The windows system has 1 other 320GB SATA drive for storage, a 160GB IDE drive for OS and programs and a 60GB SATA drive for PS scratch. At ~4am every day I have an rsync cron job kick off on my Linux system that syncs files from the Windows box to my Linux box where I have 2x 320GB SATA drives in a RAID 1 set. The Windows filesystem is mounted via CIFS on the Linux box. Once a week or more I manually run an rsync command to sync the files from the Linux box to an external USB drive. If I have to leave the house in a hurry I can just grab the external enclosure which is in the office next to the front door. A friend added to the paranoia the other day and suggested running another rsync job to another Linux box at my parents' house for even more redundancy. Not a bad idea... The initial sync would take hours over the internet but changes and additions would go relatively quickly. -- Christian http://photography.skofteland.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
