04-15-2010, 06:13 PM
I've been ripping like a fool and have more than 500 movies/TV shows ripped, taking about 700GB on my 2TB drive. As I add about 50 movies a day, I'm planning to back up every day or so to another external 2TB drive. The first time I used CCC, but it stopped with an error - forget what it was, so I used SuperDuper. The BU went fine, copying about 500GB of files from a 1TB drive I was using for temporary storage until I got my 2TB drives. Then I backed up the 2TB working drive to a new 2TB backup drive a couple days ago.
The 2TB is the "working" drive for iTunes. Since the drive is shared, I can access it from any of the three computers I'm using to rip, but I ran into the dreaded "The disk may be full or locked" message when trying to access from one of the other computers. I checked the permissions and on the iTunes folder gave R&W to myself , Staff and Everyone and applied to all enclosed items. That appears to have solved the access problem, but now I'm doing an incremental back up from the working drive and SD is apparently copying every file. So far it's evaluated 202.77GB, 0.0 MB already up to date and 202.77GB copied. TIA.
The question is: did changing the permissions make SD think the files were all modified or is there some other thing that will make it want to overwrite every file when I do an incremental backup? Do the dates change when the file is accessed by the ATV, or when iTunes is synched to the ATV (as in when I run iTunes on a different computer and have to disconnect and then add a "new" library)? This could be a major PITA if every time I want to add a movie, once things are all copied and stable, it wants to overwrite 2 TB of files when I back up. If the issue is caused by my opening iTunes on a different computer, I can restrict myself to using the same computer all the time, once I'm done ripping.
I'd like to hear what your experiences are with backup. Maybe Raid 5 would be a good thing after all.
The 2TB is the "working" drive for iTunes. Since the drive is shared, I can access it from any of the three computers I'm using to rip, but I ran into the dreaded "The disk may be full or locked" message when trying to access from one of the other computers. I checked the permissions and on the iTunes folder gave R&W to myself , Staff and Everyone and applied to all enclosed items. That appears to have solved the access problem, but now I'm doing an incremental back up from the working drive and SD is apparently copying every file. So far it's evaluated 202.77GB, 0.0 MB already up to date and 202.77GB copied. TIA.
The question is: did changing the permissions make SD think the files were all modified or is there some other thing that will make it want to overwrite every file when I do an incremental backup? Do the dates change when the file is accessed by the ATV, or when iTunes is synched to the ATV (as in when I run iTunes on a different computer and have to disconnect and then add a "new" library)? This could be a major PITA if every time I want to add a movie, once things are all copied and stable, it wants to overwrite 2 TB of files when I back up. If the issue is caused by my opening iTunes on a different computer, I can restrict myself to using the same computer all the time, once I'm done ripping.
I'd like to hear what your experiences are with backup. Maybe Raid 5 would be a good thing after all.