On Mon, 04 May 2015 02:39:10 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I wasn't suggesting symlinks, just LVs mounted at appropriate points. > > It rather depends on the spread of Dale's data. If he just needs > > extra space for his videos, he could get a new drive and mount it at > > ~/videos. > > The bulk of the space is used by the videos. It's everything from TV > shows to movies to youtube howtos. I'm using roughly 1.8TB on the drive > and the videos take up roughly 1.7TB of that space. My camera pics only > use 21GBs of space. Rest is basically a rounding error. :/
You need to separate those anyway, for backup purposes. Anything you downloaded, you can usually download again, so you only need a list of the files to be able to find them again. On the other hand, you photos are irreplaceable and need to be backed up. > I really do need to set up RAID at least for some stuff that I may not > be able to get back. Some videos I have are no longer available. RAID is not a backup solution. > What > I wish, I had a second puter in a outbuilding that I could copy to over > ethernet or something. May help in the event of a house fire etc. You have, it's called Amazon S3 :) It's a lot cheaper than a second computer, and a lot more reliable. -- Neil Bothwick Two rights don't make a wrong, they make an airplane.
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