Discussion on archiving and hoarding data

got a terramaster nas. considering truenas on it, but so far just loaded it up with 16tb. great little plex and navidrome machine to stream my animes and music.
reason I kinda want truenas would be to run a vpn for bittorrent and only bittorrent. but for now it's not really worth messing with the process to get it installed, and then needing to set up all the iptable shit i'd need to do to do that. altho. I suppose it does have 2 networking interfaces, so I could just run vpn on one of them, that would make it easier to set up. hmm

I lost my backup of lots of youtube channels I like (many of which have removed their videos). and my day is ruined.

I need a real backup solution. In particular, I download videos to an external plugged into a raspi, and I absolutely need to have that not be the only copy.

technically, there is another disk plugged into the pi (two disks even!) but none of them are big
the one all the YouTube videos go on is 1TB; I download stuff in 480 or 720 usually

I think even my desktop doesn't have more than 8tb of disk hooked up to it...

harddrives aren't terribly expensive. the platter type. OpenMediaVault works on pretty much any commodity hardware (includeing rpi) and makes setting up raid for redundancy, ftp, samba (if you have windows/mac pcs that need to use it on the network), plex for media streaming, and dockerized services (navidrome for music, game servers, local git, etc) all very easy.

having a local harddrive with all your important stuff is asking for disaster later. if you want to have local stuff instead of relying on "someone else's computer" (cloud) you should have a decent central storage solution with redunancy for recoverability and a second copy of that data on a usb drive you keep in a weather proof place ideally at some other location. (friends house, lockbox, buried in a geocache, etc)

most things can be redownloaded, costing only time to find it all again. but that just makes it hurt more when something can't be found again.

I have bought a 4tb hdd.

Should start to put all my backups on there

Just bought a new external drive, ran out of space. Not really a data hoarder just need a place to keep my eroge.

im down to only 7TB free and i'm beginning to feel the walls closing in. don't wanna remember how ya'll live with these 2 4 and 8 tb external drives. needing to unsummon stuff after having summoned it?! madness.

>>8
when I was younger, I had a 10GB disk in my laptop with 1GB free

I'd download torrents and delete them the same day.
This was back before particularly big USB disks were cheap, and my CD burner... didn't work. I would probably have stacks of burned CDs with shit from back then if it did...

in modern times, I just keep buying more disks when I run out of space
I really do want to get a pair of big cheap used enterprise disks and RAID mirror them. I also need a dock to hold them, fucking modern gamer desktops...

I do need a backup for my R18 files... I wouldn't lose literally everything if the disk exploded this second, but I'd lose a lot and it would be a pain in the ass to redownload a bunch of stuff...

Mankind lives on the edge with data because straying from the cliffside is a hassle, but falling off is worse than just a hassle... what a pain...

I built a 12TB NAS for anime and e-books but haven't got enough money to afford backups yet.

>>11
ooo. Is there a good server/docker image for serving ebooks? for music i'm using navidrome and for anime i'm using plex, but for ebooks I have just been copying them over ftp or samba.

>>12
Calibre?

>>13
til you can run calibre as a content server. tmyk