Re: [PLUG] Copying files to multiple volumes

["K.S. Bhaskar via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Steve –

Yes, at minimal cost, it preserves each file's location on disk, and also simplifies restoring as well as searching for files.

Regards

– Bhaskar

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 2:41 AM Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:

On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 21:33:13 -0400
"K.S. Bhaskar via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

> You can use a boustrophedon-inspired heuristic that will likely give a
> good-enough fit. For two drives, create the same directory hierarchy
> on both drives, and sort the file sizes from largest to smallest.
> Then put the largest file on disk1 in the directory where it belongs,
> the next two on disk 2 in the directories where they belong, the next
> two on disk 1, the next two on disk two, and so on. You can extend
> this heuristic to n drives.

Is the reason for the identical directory structures on each disk to
preserve each file's location on the original?

SteveT

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