On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 03:25:03PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT 
> com> wrote:
> >
> > (And while I'm thinking of it:  1TB of total space for 500GB of
> > target backup space is... interesting.  I assume you want more
> > than one backup for a time-based history?  (I usually default to
> > between 12 and 16 copies to cover 120 or so days of time.)  Yes,
> > BackupPC has pooling, but I would not want to put in a new
> > solution that has a significant amount less than 50% growth
> > capacity on day one...)
> 
> I usually see 30-60% compression, plus some savings from files
> duplicated in different locations with subsequent growth only being
> the changes over the history you keep.   But, especially with SATA I'd
> go with 2 or 3TB since they don't cost much more.

But didn't the op say a lot of files were images? jpeg or png don't
compress well.

The iso's may depending on what's on them.

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                                -- rouilj

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