ggw wrote:Is anyone partitioning the 700Gigs I find here on my X1000?
I would advise creating several "AmigaOS" (system) partitions - a primary one, and at the very least backup one. A third "test" one could be very handy on occasions. Apart from that, many people just have a "Work" partition... but I would advocate separating Programs & Data. Programs doesn't need to be too big (50GB should suffice no matter how mad you are), while the Data partition would take up the rest of the space. You MIGHT also want to have a small Temp partition.
The idea in the above partitioning scheme is that data files (pictures, music, videos, etc) take most space, but as they change frequently they are most prone to corruption. Therefore program files (which change less often) should be stored on a separate partition to keep them safe from corruption by data files. The Temp partition is for VERY frequently changing files (that are short-lived), and so are very prone to corruption, so keep them separate from data & programs.
Don't use partitions for ONLY organising the type of data (such as Music, Pictures, etc), because we have folders for that job. Folders can have 'any' size, where-as partitions require their maximum size to be decided in advance (which is extremely hard to guess in general). Only use partitioning for protecting against corruption, or because you need a different filing system for some kinds of files.
What are you using for a backup process? I've never faced a terabyte storage situation before.
For normal users I would recommend an external harddrive (of identical size). Onyxsoft's Backup program is probably the simplest solution:
http://www.onyxsoft.se/backup.html
The easiest way would be to have one huge partition on the external harddrive, with one folder per partition. More advanced users might want to duplicate their partition layout on the external harddrive (such that you are backing-up from partition to partion, rather than partition to folder).
An external USB harddrive should be fast enough now that AmigaOS4 supports USB2... but for *real* speed you could consider eSATA (aka External SATA). eSATA is really fast, but as AmigaOS4 doesn't support hot-plugging you will need to plug the harddrive in before (re)booting OS4. You'll need to add an eSATA socket to your case, but there are very cheap PCI-style backplates that connect an internal SATA port to the outside.
But I don't actually backup that way! Instead I keep my Amiga's Data partition synchronised with my Windows PC's Data partition, via the (shell only) FolderSync2 command + FTPMount + FileZilla over ethernet, and then backup my Windows PC to an external HD. Before doing the Windows backup, I use FolderSync2 to backup my non-Data partitions to my Windows machine (and my AmigaAttributes shell command records Amiga-only stuff like file comments & Amiga file protection bits & soft links). This is not for the faint hearted(!), and I could only recommend doing the Data synchronisation part (as the non-Data partitions are too fiddly for most people, and it still runs into problems with some wierd Amiga-only characters in filenames). At some point I plan to put most of this into one single utility, with a nice GUI, but who-knows when...
