| 2011-06-20 05:52:20 |
Jason Gerard DeRose |
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A personal experience today demonstrated the need for such a button.
Although we don't have a UI for it yet, I've always planned for dmedia to have a clear UI to show you:
1) The computers/devices that included in your library
2) The individual FileStore on the local device, how much storage is used, how much free
3) Removable drives with dmedia FileStore on them
4) Cloud services where dmedia has files stored (UbuntuOne, S3, etc)
dmedia will know when, say, a given laptop was last used, when a given removable drive was last plugged into a device in your library. If it has been too long since dmedia has "made contact" with specific drives or devices, dmedia will update any files contained on them to {"copies": 0}... so that dmedia doesn't count on these copies. dmedia can then make sure all your personal files have enough copies even without these drives and devices.
But there also need to be a "trust me, this laptop wont be making contact ever again" button. dmedia will then immediately set all copies to zero, if not remove those filestores entirely from the database. Hopefully dmedia had enough time to copy files over before the accident, so that no data was lost. |
A personal experience today demonstrated the need for such a button.
Although we don't have a UI for it yet, I've always planned for dmedia to have a clear UI to show you:
1) The computers/devices that are included in your library
2) The individual FileStore on the local device, how much storage is used, how much free
3) Removable drives with dmedia FileStore on them
4) Cloud services where dmedia has files stored (UbuntuOne, S3, etc)
dmedia will know when, say, a given laptop was last used, when a given removable drive was last plugged into a device in your library. If it has been too long since dmedia has "made contact" with specific drives or devices, dmedia will update any files contained on them to {"copies": 0}... so that dmedia doesn't count on these copies. dmedia can then make sure all your personal files have enough copies even without these drives and devices.
But there also needs to be a "trust me, this laptop wont be making contact ever again" button. dmedia will then immediately set all copies to zero, if not remove those filestores entirely from the database. Hopefully dmedia had enough time to copy files over before the accident, so that no data was lost. |
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