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hey lucas,
you mind showing me your filesystem layout. i dont know why im interested but i am. i know your ocd about organization and you use svn for stuff so i was just curious.

anyway. if not thats cool too. just a thought

My Documents
    classes (svn repo)
        tags
            03_fall
            04_fall
            04_spring
            05_fall
            05_spring
            06_fall
            06_spring
            07_fall
            07_spring
            ga_cornish
            grad_apps_07
            lycee
        trunk
            econ250_ta
            econ432_ta
            econ501
            econ502
            econ569
            program_of_study.doc
            scores.txt
            stretegy.txt
    ga (svn repo)
    journal (svn repo)
    larz (svn repo)
        financial
        social
        wlw
    ttf-live (svn repo)
    ttf-src (svn repo)
    wlw-live (svn repo)
    wlw-src (svn repo)


D:
    ap
    backup
        audio
        files
        images
        iso
        social
        websites
            mysql
    music
    nv
        class_archives
        photos
    programs
    spring_break

cornish ftw

next level shit is almost complete

real real serious system here

you impose order on entropy rather well

it's complete. information soon!

http://www.clanbbw.com/publicimg/data/images/fs.png

all of my files are stored in two places--My Documents (which is on an NTFS partition and uses FS encryption) and D: (which is a FAT32 partition).

if you want more information, let me know.

as far as backups are concerned:

My Documents/private and D:/private are synchronized with s3 continuously, and they are copied to an external hard drive stored in a fire-proof safe at least weekly.

My Documents/projects is full of SVN repositories, which are stored on a server that synchronizes with s3 every six hours.

a note on encryption:
private exists in two places, an encrypted directory and a non-encrypted directory. things that require privacy go in the former, everything else in the latter. much more disk space is used in the latter, which also improves access speed.

encryption is not used when storing files in s3. i trust that the acl works properly and no one at amazon will steal my files. ssl is used for transport to and from s3, however, which is crucial.

that is pretty much how i'm set up, minus s3 and substituting mercurial for svn. or rather, will be set up sometime soon

i already keep stuff in mercurial repositories on my tihnkpad that i regularly push to my server. my two servers are backup up every night. my router is backed up manually for now, but it will get automation when i upgrade it to openbsd 4.4. the thinkpad gets backed up manually as well, and it will probably stay that way. all the really important stuff i keep in mercurial anyway, and i push after every commit if i'm connected to the internet. i'm planning on getting an external drive that will mirror the backups on my fileserver weekly, i already have a safe for it

when 4.4 comes out, i'll upgrade my laptop as well, and make a ~10 GB encrypted /home, and a ~240 GB /pub. sort of like lucas' setup, only with one drive. for my ultra-secret stuff there's a 512 MB encrypted minisd card hidden somewhere in the world

oh yeah, and i'll set up ipsec sometime soon to get encrypted nfs

> sort of like lucas' setup, only with one drive.

i have one drive with two partitions.

> for my ultra-secret stuff there's a 512 MB encrypted minisd card hidden somewhere in the world

i'm lovin' this.

oh, and i'm enjoying the idea of a distributed vcs. thanks for the tip on mercurial.

> cornish ftw

haha

im just lazy and been using time machine. been decent though. one thing i do really like about it is that it just stores the files in a regular folder structure so you can just browse and copy what you want manually. my thinkpad doesnt get backed up though. nothing on it that isnt somewhere else already.

Documents
Downloads
Muisc
Movies
Projects (django projects)
Public (software installs)
Pictures

Pretty standard mac layout. i hate capital folders.