[ale] 26G to backup

[Leam Hall]

One solution for mail is to use Evolution. It mangles and loses e-mail 
so you can trim down that directory!

On a more serious note, can you sort your mail into sub-directories and 
then backup the main stuff on one dvd and the rest on another? That 
would give you some room for growth, too.

The other main thing that comes to mind, that would be much easier, 
would be two of those external drives. Just have them mirrored so that 
if one dies you can use the other one.

I don't have the best solution but am thinking through it. My wife is a 
photographer and I have to work on 1/2 TB.

Leam

On 12/30/2011 04:19 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I have 26G of data I want to archive and backup up.  I would want to do
> this on DVDs.
>
> I can spend a hour or so creating a perl script that will create ISOs at
> 4.4GB each, but I'm thinking this problem has been solved with a better
> script (mine not written) or some OSS software project.  I like ISO9660
> with Rockridge and Joilet, but I also like to burn some DVDs as ext2 to
> preserve all attributes (permissions, owership, etc).
>
> I'm looking for some pointers on the best way to accomplish this.  Of
> course I could tar it all up and use split. That would require me to
> re-assemble the data when I need to chase down one file.
>
> I also want to archive 100G.
>
> I plan on purchasing a 1T USB drive to be total storage of this data,
> but I do not trust that as a primary store.
>
> One prime problem is my ~/mail imap directory.  I've copied it off and
> am now using empty imap boxes.  That directory is 6G in size and will
> not fit on a signal DVD.  I've thought about using mksquashfs and then
> burning the squash as the DVD (would not mount in Winders).  My concern
> here is that future squashfs versions would render my data unreadable.
>
> All this data will be archived on 2 sets of DVDs.  One set will be in my
> office and the second set in an offsite location inside of a safe.
>
> Chris
>
>
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