norderney;282422 Wrote: > I store my music on a 750GB hard drive. I have about 21,000 FLAC tracks > and 9,000 MP3s 320kbps VBR. > > I bought my SB1 in November 2004 and recently replaced it with a > Transporter. Having spent hours and hours ripping CDs and tagging, I > wanted a backup system that would be as fool poof as possible. So over > the last 3.5 years I now have 3 extra 750GB HDDs, which I use for > backup. 1 of these disks I keep off site. > > Is this overkill paranoia or sensible backp planning? I know a guy that washes his hands about 50 times a day. Overkill or sensible?
> I use SyncBack to manage the backup process. When I run SyncBack it > first gives me a list of all new/modified files it is going to copy and > a list of files it is going to delete. If I agree with this list I press > the continue button. > > I also run FLACTEST regularly on my main music HDD and my 3 backup HDDs > as well. The question remains whether the backup software can detect changes to files where only some tag data has been modified. If you don't maintain file mod times when you change tags then it's not something you need to worry about. But if you do, since Flac tag blocks are written with some padding to allow tags to be modified in place, the file size as well as the date last modified usually remain the same. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39558 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
