From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wb@freebie.xs4all.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:44:41 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Irwin 285 In-Reply-To: <20100121213323.ab1c204f.jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> References: <20100121121917.eb90e950.jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> <20100121113213.GB14623@freebie.xs4all.nl> <48239d391001210407t7633e9d1p692be7de51ccb9dd@mail.gmail.com> <20100121181147.97ae525c.jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> <20100121185917.GA25619@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20100121204829.672d59a7.jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> <20100121195619.GE25687@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20100121195818.GF9956@bitmover.com> <20100121200034.GG25687@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20100121213323.ab1c204f.jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> Message-ID: <20100121204441.GJ25687@freebie.xs4all.nl> Quoting Jochen Kunz, who wrote on Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 09:33:23PM +0100 .. > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:00:34 +0100 > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > But the disks are getting to be too big to fit a level 0 on a > > single tape. > Depends on the data. My /home is just below 4 GB. This is the data I > really care about and I write it to DLT tape. There is a lot of other > stuff like the OS (NetBSD) itself and the source it is build from. > There are MP3s I created from my CDs... This is a large amount of data, > but that data can be recreated when it gets lost. So I don't care about > backup of it. I.e. in the end I have to backup only 4 GB of /home data. Well, 4GB is tiny. I keep a lot of photographic images, high-res scans of medium format film. At 120MB (or so) per lossless image things get ugly quickly. > Maybe I should get a second hard drive and create a software RAID1... Money well invested in my book. Wilko _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs