Starting tomorrow morning, 30 Aug 2014, I will be starting the storage drive upgrade to 2TB.  I will be suspending all backup scripts during  this upgrade, which I will be completed within the week, barring unforseen complications.  Usage after the upgrade will be  rather transparent.  This will also allow for more storage space and some ‘relocation’ of things from / and /home utilizing some symbolic links.  Server usage for during  the upgrade, should continue as normal, except for a very short period right at the end when the drives are swapped in the bays.  I would not expect noticeable delays for ftp and web requests during the cloning process.  SSH use might be a little slower than usual, though.  I will try to keep everyone posted about the status of the upgrade operation in comments to this post.  Thanks to everybody for their patience during this necessary