On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 15:08 +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote: > I know, I know... it's off the lists topic! But I need some help. > Probably I am going to "migrate" soon all of my stuff in a new > linux-box. So I would like to collect best practice tips concerning the > following: > > > OS: > OK, I think I shouldn't ask about which OS since foss runs on everything > (right?). But are I am curious to know if there are any advantages using > Debian instead of Ubuntu for example? > > > Filesystems: > Which filesystem is better(=safer/faster) for data storage? Is there any > important advantage to choose XFS for example rather than ext3? > > > Partitions: > Do you keep your geo-data in a separate partition? I suppose yes. Have > you split further your partition based on other criteria, always related > with "working with geospatial data"? > > Do you keep all of your source code in a separate partition maybe? > > > Organisation: > GRASS takes care to organise the data inside the GIS data-base and its > fantastic. But what about the "raw" data? How do you organise them? > Manually everything? Any tool to be more productive? > > > BackUp: > How often do you backup your data? Do you just copy or do you compress > as well? What is safer? > > > Other: > Any other important issues when setting-up a new foss-geo-box? > > > Thank you, Nikos > > P.S. Maybe we can add a new wiki-page if something useful comes out of > this thread. Or maybe not... :-)
Dylan, Eric and Markus, thank you for your precious time to respond. Since there are already 3 answers then maybe some wiki-page can be set-up out-of it. I'll try to structure the information a bit and open a page whenever I find some free-time (possibly this weekend). Please to all GRASS-users following the list, if you have some spare time and consider these questions important, participate with your ideas/tips/hints/tricks. Kind regards, Nikos _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
