backin' up

[low_delta]

In order to free up some space on the hard drive, I hooked up my backup harddrive, and started transferring files. It told me I had to wait like three hours or some crap like that, so I went to the basement to do some cleaning. After an hour, I came back upstairs to see what was up, and it had stopped at 100 minutes left. The disk was full. Pretty dumb, I guess, not to check if there was enough space.

So I transferred some files manually, and freed up another ten gig. Maybe I'll try again when I go to bed. I also need to defrag. That'll probably take all night too.

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[vocalista001.livejournal.com]

I'm supposed to hook up the time machine to my mac but I know it'll take 14 hours or somesuch thing.

I fear backup and yet I feel convinced that I must have it.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Is that a special Mac sort of thing?

I think backups are important, but I don't do them often enough.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

My backup drive is 300 gb. I thought it was more than big enough, but now I realize there needs to be space for two complete copies each of my and Cyn's computers. So four times the size of one computer. Assuming I don't want to delete the previous backup until I've copied it again. Or maybe I'm too paranoid?

I think I may buy another. In fact, yes, I need to. I just moved files onto the backup drive, that I deleted from this computer. They MUST stay on it, and I don't want to have to worry about accidentally deleting them.

I've still got my old computer in the closet. I could try to get it running again. I was thinking I'd use it as a music server. I wonder if it's got 50.5 GB of space on it for tunes.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Good idea on the copied backups. And on different ones for different computers. We don't really have any power trouble, like you do, so I don't think I have to worry about the battery backup for the time being. I only backup a couple times a year, a couple hours at a time. But it's good thought to keep in mind anyway.

It didn't occur to me, but our company, and many others, use tape backup.

Thanks a lot!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Weird. When I posted this, 500 gb was running $65, and a terabyte was $100. Now, I got 500 gb on sale for $74, and 1 tb is $115. I wonder what's going on. The post Halloween shopping rush?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I was saying that prices went up about fifteen percent in the last 3 or 4 weeks. But I need to learn to shop online, like you get all those steals. Oh well, at least Best Buy has a good return policy.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Well, I haven't taken this one out of the box yet...