OK; time for a new backup drive

[mdlbear]

Just looked at the stats on my backup drive: it's 98% full -- about 133GB out of a 144GB partition. And since it's a Maxtor drive from a known-bad batch, it's time for a new one. This would also be a good time to roll out the updated scripts that I'm using at work. And a little cleanup wouldn't hurt -- multiple temporary copies of some of the track working directories are part of what jumped it from 86% a week ago.

I was wondering whether to copy the old backups to the new drive; that would make sense if the new one were 400GB or bigger, but at 200 I'll have to just archive the old one and start fresh. Good excuse for some more extensive re-organization server-side. And I'll see if 500's go on sale at Fry's this week.

Comments

[eleccham.livejournal.com]

It's worse than that - that model just sucks. The internal name got unofficially changed from Calypso to Collapso.

I'm allowed to talk about it now 'cause it's not in production anymore and the company is dead. Pretty close to everything else Maxtor made was fine, except that one.

[mdlbear]

Yeah, it was pretty strange. As far as I can remember that was the only Maxtor I ever had trouble with.