It’s finally time to upgrade the external hard drive that hangs off the mac mini serving up our media media at home. While most of this isn’t really critical data I do back it up with Mozy, because, it’s cheap and easier than re-creating. So far, I’ve added the new drive, copied over all the old data with rsync and swapped names of the mounted drives. Mozy seems pretty happy with the operation so far. Although, if it breaks, anywhere obvious I’ll update this entry.
Update: So, the data on the new drive, but same name as old, seems to be intact and not needing a re-upload which is good. But, the data that I moved back onto the old drive, with a new name, seems like it needs to be re-uploaded. That’s kind of a bummer, I was really hoping it just worked exclusively on checksums that it had already uploaded to the service, but at least I don’t have to re-upload the lion’s share of the data.
Update: So, the data on the new drive, but same name as old, seems to be intact and not needing a re-upload which is good. But, the data that I moved back onto the old drive, with a new name, seems like it needs to be re-uploaded. That’s kind of a bummer, I was really hoping it just worked exclusively on checksums that it had already uploaded to the service, but at least I don’t have to re-upload the lion’s share of the data.
