In another thread, 'street_samurai' wrote: > Having said that, I also use FLAC as I don't want to rip my CDs ever > again... and space is cheap. True, space is cheap, and ripping is a time-consuming process. But we still put our trust in a hard-drive that probably runs 24x7 in many cases, and probably wasn't designed for that. (And that's without worrying about fire or theft!)
So how to make decent backups of all those FLACs? Rough calculations indicate that, when all my music is ripped, I'll have been 80Gb and 90Gb of FLACs. I see two alternatives: backup to another hard-drive, or to a stack of DVDs. Hard-disk: to do it properly, would need a large disk in another machine, with regular backups using rsync or something similar. In an ideal world I'd not like to keep more than one box running constantly. DVDs: Would work, but would need somehow to keep track of those tracks have been backed-up, and those that haven't. Ideally, this would be semi-automatic: have something that magically recognises when there's a fresh 4Gb of unarchived FLACs, then sends an email to say "Hey! Stick a blank dvd in the drive". I'm Unix-based, so could maybe use the 'archive' bit on each file? Any other ideas? How does everyone else do it? Matthew -- mflint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18029 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
