spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0046

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0046

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0046.m4a

Video Links

YouTube -> "Anita O'Day and Roy Eldridge 1942"
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This is episode 46

I've been converting my 400 or so albums from vinyl to CDs, to MP3s, and you're going to reap the benefits of my vastly expanded iTunes catalog.

This summer, I discovered I could write and assemble a book in a week, spend a month revising it and it could be out for sale before school started.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

Its also live at MSBPodcast.com.

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I discovered that even if:
• you keep complete backups (and I do,) and
• have spare equipment as backup (and I do,)
 it still takes a lo-ong time to get a 319GB drive image off of the backup and restore it to the active drive.

And the studio is looking at using a terabyte drive.

Nah … I don't think so.

Using a pair of 500GB drives, mirroring each other, and ordering a new pair of drives when, not if but when, a 'live' drive fails is a good strategy to keep the studio running.

You can still be operating on the redundant drive while waiting for the new drives to arrive. (I'd order them then for two reasons:
1) the drives will both be fresh from the manufacturer and
2) the price is likely to drop between my original order and the replacement order.)

Then you're going to have to pull the data off the 'live' drive, make an incremental snapshot backup, roll the all of data onto the new drives, at least, a day or so after you've started the process, be able to swap the new pair in.

320GB of data is not like copying a floppy.  Its more like copying 3,200 floppies. It takes more time than you'd think. A lot more.

500GB of data is just that much more, 180GB more.

And if you're wondering why I'm not just keeping the old drive.

It's matched twin has already failed.

How long do you think the survivor has?

Get ready to use it in some less critical use than keeping a studio up and running.

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Now, here comes some Roy Elderidge

Adelante la musica.

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This episode featured the following music:

"Here Comes Cookie" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Jangled Nerves" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Swing Is Here" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"After You're Gone" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Wabash Stomp" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Heckler's Hop" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"What Shall I Say" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Rockin' Chair" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"The Gasser" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Minor Jive" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Fiesta in Brass" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"St Louis Blues" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Little Jazz" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Twilight Time" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Fireworks" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"I Remember Harlem" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Easter Parade" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.