Re: [Hampshire] disk types and layout on a new box

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" <alan@???> wrote:
> > Hi Adam,
> >
> > On 27 September 2013 08:58, Dr A. J. Trickett <adam.trickett@???>
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.


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