I have been busy populating that with mirrors of backups, after partitioning the drive into no fewer than eight parts, of various data sizes between eight and 64 gigabytes.
Before that, I mounted the drive into a spare RiscPC 'slice' which has now been added to the machine, making it a three-slicer.
Much of the current activity, which is essentially just copying, can of course now be left unattended, after creating the partitions and starting all the copying operations.
It is certainly no problem to have multiple copying – or other, or any combination – exercises going on at once (standard practice for me since around 1992/93) as the above screenshot shows.
However there have been some consequent actions I have needed to take, mainly on other computers around the place, to ensure I have sufficient local backups of my biggest files (videos, PC partition files, photograph raw images, and local newspaper PDF files) now that space is being released from those other drives.
Thus I have been popping in and out of rooms every now and then, doing this and that to one machine or another, sometimes starting something, sometimes pausing it, or perhaps speeding it up (as one has been in the above image) for a while:there are good reasons for all that I do, though a bit technical to explain. One day I might even write a post going into some of it, starting with Large File Allocation Units (LFAU) which would illustrate why I created all those partitions for one thing.
Not today, though, as it's Christmas!
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