I'm starting to think that maybe one should either designate all shares as TB duplicated or designate no shares TB duplicated.
Reasoning:
- Files are scattered throughout the physical drive pool, regardless of what share they are in.
- If a physical drive dies, it will take both duplicated an non-duplicated files with it.
- To the extent that duplicated and non-duplicated files are intermingled on that disc, one will never know what files have been lost until something tries to access a lost file - creating more of a mess than if one simply knew that all files were gone - and, perhaps, needed TB restored from external backup - OR, in the case of 100% duplicated files, no mess at all.
Does this sound reasonable?
I don't agree. You should base it on what you consider to be "valuable" and make your decision based on that. I don't duplicate my Videos and Music folders because if I lose them, I still have the original media and can re-rip them. However, my Photos and my own personal folders are extremely important to me. My family pictures and personal documents can't be replaced (which is why I not only have Folder Duplication enabled on those shares, but I use
Jungle Disk to back those shares up "to the clouds" automatically).
