Storage organizing question

I need to free up some storage space. For my movie projects I have been storing on external hard disk both the iMovie project and an archived iDVD of the project. I know that seems like overkill from a space standpoint, but I started doing it when I was a newbie and wanted to be sure I had stored absolutely everything necessary to call up the project at a future time.
Now I plan to jettison all the iDVD projects and keep only the iMovie projects. My thinking is that the iDVD version of the project can always be easily duplicated from the iMovie project. Do you see any drawbacks to that plan?
Also, if I do decide to store an iDVD project, it would seem that storing it as a disk image would be better than storing it as an archived iDVD. Do you agree?

Ditto to the above.

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Moodybeach wrote:
I am was afraid to delete the files from my internal drive. I have read that sometimes the external hard drives fail. I have emptied my trash. I have deleted my emails. Most of my storage is home videos.
ALL hard drives fail - the question is, when. The files on both your internal and external disks should be backed up, then delete files (and empty the trash!) from the internal that you have copied to the external. You should aim to have at least 20GB free on the internal.

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Do I need to maintain storage location for materials in material master data?
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If I donu2019t maintain storage location, just plant. When I create purchase order, I donu2019t put storage location, but do goods receipt, I must input storage location, right? Can I put any storage location which belongs to that procurement plant, is it ok?
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Do I need to maintain storage location for materials in material master data?
not neccessary but depends on the requirement of you rbussiness.
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If I donu2019t maintain storage location, just plant. When I create purchase order, I donu2019t put storage location, but do goods receipt, I must input storage location, right? Can I put any storage location which belongs to that procurement plant, is it ok?
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Hi, I am new to BDB.
We recently migrated our internal DB into BDB (we are using the C++ version). Here are some of the details:
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Are there any parameters (eg fill factors) that could affect the storage usage? We just used the defaults.
Over time, how to defragment the DB without taking the DB off line?
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Hi John,
So you are using the C++ API. What is the BDB release you are using (e.g. 5.1.19, 5.0.26 etc), on what OS, filesystem, and what is the underlying filesystem's I/O block size? (to get the block size, use something like "dumpe2fs /dev/hdN | grep 'Block size'" on Linux, "fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo D:" on Windows -- look for "Bytes Per Cluster", "df -g /part_mount_point" on Solaris)
Note that Btree and Hash databases are grow-only, that is, space freed by deleting items from a Btree or Hash database is never returned to the filesystem, although it is reused where possible; see the Disk space requirements section in the Berkeley DB Reference Guide.
You can use compaction to reclaim disk space and shrink the databases' sizes; see the Db::compact() method. If you need clarification on the compact() method let me know; also, there are a lot of useful threads on the forum dealing with compaction, just do a search on "compact database".
Data is saved using hash table (key has a fixed size of 16 bytes, but data size varies - from 20 bytes to a few kbs)More precisely, to how many "few" Kbs?
the data becomes about 9GB (slightly more than our data grows rate), but the index db size has grown to 9GB as wellCould you check that the secondary key creator callback function is correct? It's a little bit surprising to see the secondary index database growing from 1GB to 9GB.
Are there any parameters (eg fill factors) that could affect the storage usage? We just used the defaults.Yes, the most important is the database page size which will influence the fill factor; see Selecting a page size.
As your data item size varies to a few Kbs your database probably has a lot of overflow pages (these pages store overflow items which are too large to be stored entirely onto a normal leaf page - an overflow item will be stored onto multiple overflow pages; retrieving such items is more expensive as the entire set of pages needs to be read into cache).
Also, for specific configuration for each of the two access methods see Btree access method specific configuration and Hash access method specific configuration.
Use the db_stat utility with the -d option and provide the database statistics for each of the databases (primary and secondary).
Over time, how to defragment the DB without taking the DB off line?Use compaction as initially mentioned; compaction is done online, that is, you do not have to close the database (take it offline).
Regards,
Andrei

Storage / Backup Question

As this relates to how I work with my files whilst using FCE, I suspect this is probably the right board to post on....here's my question....
I'm starting to produce more and more videos for work - I capture with a small Sony HD camera, import the files to my external hard drive....and then start work on them....
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When I was recently organising new backup facilities for my sctatch disk I got advice from someone on Macfixit against using a RAID system for backups, either a hard or software RAID system, for the reasons that Martin mentioned - lack of sufficiently reliability. The reason for re-equipping was that the internal power supply circuitry of the (failed) external Scratch Disk caused the failure. If that happened in a RAID system (which I believe shares a common internal power circuitry) the whole RAID would fail. I got a rescue firm to read and copy the Capture Scratch on to another HD but many files did not survive.
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Storage Resource question

Hi,
I have a question, Can I use Storage Resources in Discrete Manufacturing? If so, is there a specific configuration for it?
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E-Series storage connectivity questions.

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I have a question here about the storage design. My company has 2 node Oracle RAC already setup on Linux with 11g for clusterware, ASM and 10g for database(for application support we are using still 10g for database). This RAC is dedicated for one database and shared by several applications.
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vasu
Edited by: vasu77 on Feb 23, 2010 10:12 AM

Hi Vasu,
The existing storage uses EMC SAN DMX 4574 (raw partitions) disks. And the additional storage disks provided by our storage team are EMC SAN DMX 3752.
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For the ASM side, it's not a problem, You can work with this kind of configuration. In fact I have a couple of environemnt using this configuration. I'm using a expensive storage with a better performance to critical tablespaces, and a lower cost storage to put historical data and other kind of data that are not accessed every time.
Shall we connect these different disks to the switches so that ASM can see all the disks at once and can be used for database? Well,
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ICloud storage plan question

So, I didn't have enough space to download my iTunes library. I went into my iCloud storage plan and changed my plan to the $20/yr plan and received 10GB, making it now a 15GB.
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Iphoto '09 organizing question

You all have heard this before, I am a Windoze convert and I just can't like iphoto!!! I've been a mac owner for about 5 months now and am really trying to setup iphoto so its nice and neat. I've noticed keywords seem to be key to making that work, but I just wish it would let me do what I want it to do. One big question I have is when you are in the "photos" library view, just below the events - Why can I not list those by alphabetical Event title, or get that "photos" view on the event screen? Meaning I really like looking at the events title in a nice neat list (with thumbnails closed) - I just need it to alphabetize!! An answer to helping me do this would go a long way toward making me like iphoto more!!! I am also considering moving to Aperture because it seems more flexible, but I am giving iphoto a chance here.

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