Re: Partitioning of new machine - thank you
On Saturday 09 August 2014 11.11:08 Gary Dale wrote:
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> To preserve your archive, I'd advise PAR2 redundancy files to fix any
> problems that may crop up. So long as your HD copies are good, you don't
> need to go to the PAR2 files, but should one develop a problem, you can
> fix it with the PAR2 files. Having 5% to 10% redundancy is a lot cheaper
> than RAID1.
>
> You can automate the PAR2 creation by checking for new files and
> creating PAR2s for them.
Thank you all for the great ideas and opinions.
I've decided to use only one internal ext4 partition w/o any RAID for the
photos together with par2 for the anti-bit rot plus the external backup.
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