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Home-brew automatic tiered storage solutions with Linux? (Memory -> SSD -> HDD -> remote storage)
Related to this question about using an SSD for system and HDD for data, except I would like my system to do this automatically...
Is it possible to have several layers of storage and push items ...
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Which archive/compression format?
Zip, Rar, 7z, Gzip, BZip2, Tar etc. I'm hearing 7z is the flavor of the month, why? Is it best for all situations or are there better choices for specific situations.
Or maybe the actual file ...
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Is there a smarter tar or cpio out there for efficiently retrieving a file stored in the archive?
I am using tar to archive a group of very large (multi-GB) bz2 files.
If I use tar -tf file.tar to list the files within the archive, this takes a very long time to complete (~10-15 minutes).
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Creating a tar file with checksums included
Here's my problem : I need to archive to tar files a lot ( up to 60 TB) of big files (usually 30 to 40 GB each). I would like to make checksums ( md5, sha1, whatever) of these files before archiving; ...
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wheezy-updates on archive.debian.org returns 404 Not Found
I have an old test machine on Debian Wheezy that I can't really update right now.
Debian Wheezy repositories were archived in February. So I want ahead, and updated my /etc/apt/sources.list from
deb ...
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Cost effective, long term archival of video and image data? ~50 TB
My lab is in the process of setting up a small server that holds data (mostly video and image data, plus a few documents) for the project our group is working on at a moment in time.
Historically, ...
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Tar: avoid archiving of files larger than certain size
I want to archive files (with tar) which are below 3 MB in size. But I also want to retain the directories in which those files exist. (so I cannot use find command). I just want to avoid the files ...
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Backup is not Archiving - But what requirements does archiving have?
There's related thread on how to handle archiving. I'm asking on how to find the requirements in a company on the way archiving should be done, and also the requirements that need to be fullfilled so ...
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What are some good methods for archiving MS Exchange messages?
I am familiar with archiving messages on the client side to .pst's... Are there good methods of archiving messages from multiple mailboxes on the server side?
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Archiving Emails: Multiple Transports in Postfix?
I'm trying to archive incoming mail by routing it to a PHP script (which inserts it into a database) before sending the email to the destination server.
If I configure my /etc/postfix/transport as ...
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What is a good alternative to email archive appliances for MS Exchange? [closed]
I'm currently using a Barracuda Networks Message Archiver 350 appliance for email archiving (since 2008). I've been updating the Barracuda firmware as soon as a new version is released.
The ...