Should I split a big (8TB) backup disk into more than one partition, or not?
Joel Rees
joel.rees at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 13:00:56 UTC 2020
On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 9:36 PM Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 09:16:02PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> > What on earth are you going to fill an 8T backup drive with?
> >
> Incremental backups from a number of systems:-
>
> My desktop machine
>
> My Laptop
>
> My Wife's Laptop
>
> The Raspberry Pi DNS server (not much space for this)
Since that's something like four different backup programs, I'd make a
partition for each -- on the theory of isolating one backup program
from the breakage of another.
If your backups are manual, maybe not.
But I myself find a bit of comfort in having separate partitions
> As I said the existing backup box with a 3TB drive is around 50% full,
> it has backups from various systems (e.g. old laptops) from quite a few
> years back. I want to continue what that system has on it. I was
> recently able to find pictures that my daughter had lost from an
> around the world trip she did in 2009. I have E-Mails archived that
> go back into the 1990s.
Heh. My backups go back to the 1980s, but I sure don't have even a
half terabyte yet.
Several tens of gigabytes of old Linux, BSD, and Macintosh install
images, and those are the biggest bulk.
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