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Backing Up My Ex HD Problems....

Hello,

I went to back up my music collection from a 1TB Lacie to a 500 WD, something I have done successfully several times without a hitch. However, this time the coping could not be completed because it thinks it has filled up the space on the WD HD.

I have about 290GB of music and I typically drag the Lacie "Music" folder over to the "Music" folder on the WD. I will get a message that it cannot move because there isn't enough room, so I click "replace" and that usually works. This time,the process stopped at about 30% and message comes up that says the WD is full.

How can this be? Am I missing something? Technically, the 500 GB WD has no more information on it than the Lacie does at about 290GB. Any ideas?
jb8312
xti16
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Can you browse into the ext drive? If so then you can see what is there and delete what is old or un necessary.
macdadtexas
1,794 posts
 
instead of doing this you should look at having someone configure a RAID array of storage for you to automatically back up your music, or buy a Drobo which does the same thing. The Drobo solution is more expensive than the RAID, but much easier for the non-tech savvy to use.

Plus, you won't lose your music.
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sufentanil
782 posts
 
I second the above recommendation to browse the drive and see what is filling it up. Likely it is either you've created a duplicate copy of the folder, or you first deleted the folder without going to the trash and selecting "empty trash", which releases the files that were formerly just marked for deletion, rather than having been fully deleted initially.

Michael
jb8312 OP
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That was it. Some how, in the past, I must have copied my music files into the music folder on my back up drive, thus duplicating the back up. Thanks for the help.

BTW - Does backing up in a RAID or to a Drobo do anything to protect you files from fire, flood, or other type of force majure?

Thanks for the help, jtb
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sufentanil
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Jtb,

No, RAID only protects against a single hard drive failure. That's it. For the rest of the possibilities you mentioned, you need offsite backups. If you have a fast Internet connection, you can consider one of the online backup solutions as an option (I personally use iDrive).

Michael
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