Jonathan Duncan wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Ryan Nielsen wrote:
I'm currently backing up data using rsync over ssh to remote hard
drives. Those drives have filled up quite quickly. Has anyone worked
with transparent compression on file systems? Does it work well?
Are there any risks? I'm not (at the moment) worried about speed,
just space. Is there a better way to do this?
How about an extra hard drive? I just picked up a 320gb for $120. Do
you need to be saving all this data cumulatively or can you use rsync
to overwrite previously saved data? Is this like a nightly backup or
a additionaly data to large and growing project? Usually, compression
is more of a problem that it is worth, in my opinion. Especially in a
day when disk space really is cheap.
My boss is pulling his save money card. I would have just upgraded to
bigger drives, but I am trying to research it a bit at least. Your
comment on being inefficient is exactly what I wanted to hear. Any
other opinions?
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