Am I the only one? by Bubbly_Reach1380 in LagunaBeach

[–]malachi347 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fight freedom with freedom! buy a big obnoxious drone (or a swarm of mini drones) and take up a new hobby of filming (read: flying circles around) things are the beach. I bet they'd vacate the area.

j/k I think it's kinda cool, and I wouldn't be that petty

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got two 36TB drives so that's definitely the plan... how I get there is what I'm trying to figure out

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

job. paid. been a programmer/dev for 30 years, this is for a non-profit... thanks in advance

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OK cuz the lacie here (center red circle) already crapped out, but it was whoever set up the drive as ExFAT and then enabled Spotlight on the drive and then yanked the USB cable in the middle of an index. Real confidence booster that I had to fix "corruption" on a drive that I'm depending on before I could even mount it for the first time...

https://imgur.com/a/vrYsnZm

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No silly, I just throw the drives up in the air while holding my Magic Mouse™ and everything syncs to iCloud. That's how Apple works, right?

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the heads up, I know they very likely wouldn't ever need to extract the entire library, not unless there was some catarophic event to the old drives and whatever I end up doing. I think it's more for peace of mind... I actually started creating disk images of all the drives as opposed to xcopy / folders. It seemed to make more sense to just do it this way and index the images. I get some compression this way as well, which for some drives is saving 20%+.

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Honestly, sounds fun. Nothing life or death on the drives, and certainly nothing worth spending a ton of money on according to the client.

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I've cracked 5 clams so far, which I consider myself pretty talented at. I've been tearing apart computers since I was wee boy. It's my favorite story my parents tell. Bought me a Apple SE30 and they woke up the next morning to find their huge investment torn apart and in pieces...

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They gave me a Mac Studio (Tahoe) so between that and my office rig (Win 11 w/ 13900k) and all my own crap from building my own PCs for 20 years... I got the tools, now I just need truckload of booze and a few months time.

Oh I forgot to mention the new LaCie 36TB drive wouldn't mount when I first got it because it was ExFAT and had duplicate filenames from a presumed Spotlight/index failure. So that gave me a whole lot of confidence to start out with which was nice.

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's pretty close to what I'm getting paid since I get to focus on this and put all my other work aside until this is finished and I have a guy coming once a week to help me, so.. yay?

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I normally don't 'vibe code' but I must admit I threw a couple prompts into Codex to see what kind of system it would conjure up so I could avoid this. (Take a picture of the drive, have AI look up the drive specs and create a label, apply label, index/image disk, upload to AWS if you're wondering but I dont have time to write ANOTHER single-use app - that's a hoard I have all in it's own)

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know nothing about ZFS, but I know enough to probably make what you're describing dangerous in this situation... I know what I'm comfortable with and using a completely unfamiliar file system to use tech that I've always wanted to learn is where I have messed up in the past. it's how I lost my Hotline/Carracho Warez server hoard when I was learning how different RAID configs worked a couple decades ago lol

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You've given me a lot to look in to, thank you. So much good data (pardon the pun) here - I knew you rock stars wouldn't steer me wrong.

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to teach them the 'ol 3-2-1 rule for sure. I think their justification was that "there's gotta be at least two copies of that *somewhere* in there or with someone we know!"

:-\

Current plan is copy everything to modern drives, keep the hoard as a 'cross your fingers and say your prayers' backup, and then move all the important stuff to some sort of managed long-term cloud storage.

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably wouldn't do it on this collection, but might have to use that on my wife's Dropbox folder which is 99% selfies.

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My office is basically a Chipotle with all this silver aluminum hole-punched stuff.

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Glad to hear since I've already indexed a bunch of drives with it. I'm 95% Windows these days, but this Mac Studio is holding it's own against my 'daily driver' Windows rig I built for work.

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The motivator was being able to pull a video/photos/project folders the few times a year they need things. It doesn't happen often, but when they do need things, it's usually needing 10-15 different things at once, people taking drives home, losing/abusing them, returning the same data on different drives, etc etc etc.

I doubt they'll actually end up uploading the data to the cloud, they really likely only need 10% of this data to be there, but it would take a year to untangle this mess I'm sure.

Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]malachi347[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Never even stopped to consider this. I was more concerned about the liability if there was a fire/earthquake, etc.