[BBLISA] bblisa Digest, Vol 105, Issue 6

[Marc Chiarini]

Have you considered FSArchiver (http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page)?  
It might achieve what you want with long-term robustness and a minimal 
waste of space.

Regards,
Marc


On Fri 24 Aug 2012 12:00:01 PM EDT, bblisa-request at bblisa.org wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:49:25 -0400
> From: "Brian McAllister" <mcallister at mit.edu>
> Subject: [BBLISA] archiving to small disks to big disks
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> Message-ID: <201208232349.q7NNnPWW004470 at hotrats.mit.edu>
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> I'm preparing to archive data from 47 120G disks onto 5 1TB disks which
> will then sit on a shelf.  They may never be accessed again.  The 120G
> disks are filled to varying degrees.  Total data is ~4.5TB.
>
> I'm interested in making efficient use of the 1TB disks but also in
> maximizing integrity and usability in the future.  Preserving the overall
> organization of the data (by original disk) is required.  Filesystem is
> ext3.
>
> I see two choices:
>
> 1) Create 1 partition per disk and copy many original disks to it.
>
> 2) Create many partitions, each sized slightly larger than the space
>     required for each original disk.
>
> Option 1 is easier and possibly more convenient to use.
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> Option 2 seems potentially more robust.
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> Thoughts ?
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> Brian McAllister                                   Senior Software Engineer
> mcallister at mit.edu                      Bates Research & Engineering Center
> (617) 253-9537                                                Middleton, MA
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:43:20 -0400
> From: Edward Ned Harvey <bblisa4 at nedharvey.com>
> Subject: Re: [BBLISA] archiving to small disks to big disks
> To: 'Brian McAllister' <mcallister at mit.edu>, <bblisa at bblisa.org>
> Message-ID: <000001cd8191$8385afb0$8a910f10$@nedharvey.com>
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>> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
>> Behalf Of Brian McAllister
>>
>> I see two choices:
>>
>> 1) Create 1 partition per disk and copy many original disks to it.
>>
>> 2) Create many partitions, each sized slightly larger than the space
>>     required for each original disk.
>>
>> Option 1 is easier and possibly more convenient to use.
>>
>> Option 2 seems potentially more robust.
>>
>> Thoughts ?
>
> I don't see any advantage to option 2.
> In fact, even with option 1, why partition?  Just mkfs each raw device
> directly.
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