[mythtv-users] OT: Filesystems for recordings

[Dennis Hand]

Replying to your first email, those who have money invested in audio
files I would hope have backups. If not then they arent very smart.
But for the rest of the world loosing recordings or a video isn't that
big a deal but even those can be backed up no problem. Its the HDTV
recording that will make you suffer. I would say that most do not
backup. I dont.

Dennis

On 11/28/06, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> Allan Wilson wrote:
> > Since backups where brought up do most users backup their recordings
> > and video. I am recording a lot of hidef and it takes up about 800GB
> > right now. I haven't been backing it up because the space is so large
> > and the recordings change pretty frequently. I took the approach that
> > it is just TV and I could live without it in case of a crash. Are most
> > people doing backups using something like rsync or do most people live
> > dangerously without backups? Just trying to get a feel for what
> > everyone else is doing.
>
> I don't back up my Myth recordings.  Losing two weeks of recorded TV
> just isn't that big a deal for me.  I do keep dumps of the system
> partitions, though, so I can quickly reconstruct my setup without
> reinstalling everything manually.  I update those when I make major
> changes to the system.  Partition images would work, too, and be
> slightly easier to restore, but I prefer dumps because I can restore
> individual files if I need to.
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