bklaas;189372 Wrote: > The disk space required is just a little more than the space of one full > backup, plus incrementals."
Doesn't sound like what I understand to be a snapshot. Usually only pointers are stored at the time of the snapshot, then writes to the filesystem are actively monitored and only the changes stored. For most people, any backup strategy for music or video that takes up more space than the original probably isn't feasible. If you have the storage space, it would certainly be _nice_, since it offers better protection than doing a sync/mirror. Imagine running a script on your library to add a COMPILATION tag. Unless you start all over, the incremental will be as big as the full backup and the entire thing will require 2x the storage of the library itself. With a simple mirror you only need as much space as the original. You could buy two 400 GB drives and when the first is nearly full you won't be running out of space on the other used for backup. Yes, you have to be very careful to not mirror a corrupted library, or one where files have been deleted. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
