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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Need 8tb cloud storage temporarily for RAID setup (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a makeshift media server I've been building for the past two years. The problem is I've been raw dogging my luck with just one hard drive. This has been a project where I've been learning various things from like media encoding and streaming to my household. Now I'm ready to up my game and take it serious. In doing so I need to setup a RAID so I got another hard drive to do just that. The problem is, I don't want to delete all my data and restart from scratch. I've got a total of about 7.25tb of media. Instead of acquiring a third 10tb drive, I'd like to use cloud storage to temporarily store the files while I build the new setup. Does anyone have any suggestions? I've been looking at Mega because they seem the cheapest and figure I'd need it for about a month.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My initial thoughts is to create a BTRFS file system on new drive. Copy over data. Then wipe old drive and convert/balance the two drives now to BTRFS raid 1. No data loss :)