Kim Cascone wrote:
> wow! I get chewed out on the ubuntumini list for asking a
> hypothetical question
> and here I find I ask the wrong questions about backing up that
> additionally are inappropriate to the context of this list!?
>
> methinks Ubuntu users have become a sour lot in the short time I've
> been on sabbatical! ;)
>
Really, I was gonna let you guys battle it out but I'll chime in.
Back-up options are a fine question here as many coming from OSX/Win
will be wondering what their options for backing up sessions are.
And to be fair Kim, it was 1 person. Hardly an ass-chewing. ;)
> in any case, here goes round two of my research into to know how
> musicians safeguard their assets and final deliveries:
>
> ok let's pick a common scenario:
>
> - you are working on a two partition drive on your studio laptop
> - one is '/' the other is '/home'
> - you run out of space while working on music project due to working
> at a higher sample rate/bit depth
> - so you buy a larger HD and install it
>
> - how would UbuntuStudio musicians deal with this scenario?
> - basically you want to image/migrate/clone/mirror the original drive
> (containing 2 partitions) somewhere then restore it on the new drive
>
> - step by step - how would people go about doing this in their studio?
>
> <I'm assuming the functionality needed for this task would be a
> subset of the set functions that exist in the tool used for general
> backing up would have>
>
I don't think your situation is all that common. It's rather advanced
and power-user-ish IMO.
Here's how I keep 2 drives synced:
* rsync -aur --inplace --delete /media/Storage/ /media/StorageBackup
So I think if you mount both drives, edit my command to match your
source drive and destination drives, then swap 'em the new one should boot.
* rsync -av /media/source /media/destination (that might be fine for
you. edit source/destination)
Though this doesn't address the points you cited in your 1st post. Just
the one above. And grsync might work fine in above cited scenario.
Personally, (dev hat off) saving a session in ~/ is nuts to me if HD
space is even a possibility of an issue. I do *everything* on another
drive. Just me. :)
I'll leave it to you guys to continue from here.
-Cory K.
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