It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/evurepresents on 2025-02-24 20:43:59.

My external disk is thin on space - and no backup yet. So I need a backup solution pretty fast.

My plan was to by a hard disk enclosure. Use it with btrfs and raid 1 with two bays (each 16 tb), and then maybe use a third bay for weekly back up. The raid sonic icybox ib 3805 looked cool: Usb 3 gen 2, UASP and solid build quality / weight. But now I can see that the controller (ASM1051E) is know not to work well under linux with regards to uasp.

The box will connect to a dell optiplex 7080

Can you guys recommend another enclosure? And maybe comment on the general idea? I plan on buying refurbished seagate exxos drives.

I am located in the EU.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Legnovore on 2025-02-24 19:23:32.

Can anyone find news headlines of data being lost or rewritten? I'm trying to make a comparison to the nazis burning books, but I don't know where to look for headlines of actual theft of data. Any articles come to mind?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/calif94577 on 2025-02-25 02:59:53.

Looking to use my new NAS to do a few things and want to know what the recommended set up is while maintaining security.

My needs/wants:

1. Share files with several friends. This should be simple for them. Not having them install things or create accounts with websites. Giving them a username and password to log in and have access to the files from their home computers or phones. I can then manage their accounts, put them in groups with the permissions to the files I want. This would ideally work remotely and locally however definitely needs to work remotely.
2. Host a public facing website. (Nothing fancy here just concerned about the security implications on the rest of my files)
3. Have full access remotely for myself. Here I am willing to install what ever and create what ever accounts needed. (Seems like quick connect or tailscale might be best here.)
4. Lastly will need the ability for people to plug directly into the NAS via ethernet or USB and through a log in portal (preferably but not mandatory) have the ability to access specific files/folders with limited read/right as I specify. I know this one is possible cuz I know someone that did this a few years ago but no idea how he did it. (Super bonus, have the ability to automatically run scripts on incoming files like have uploaded files go to a separate folder, then run duplication checker on them, auto delete the exact duplicates (hash wise), move similarly named duplicates to another folder for manual review, and those that are unique transcode and move to designated folder for storage).

From everything I have read it seems like either DDNS/reverse proxy (or a combination of the two) might be best for 1. No idea how to do 2 securely. 3 seems like tailscale or quickconnect. And for 4 I think this is going to be very simple just don't know how to give it an IP address without a router in-between for people to get a login page.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MetalHeadJoe on 2025-02-25 02:46:02.

So I'm finally dropping some "big" money and splurged for a manufacturer renewed (1) 18TB Ultra star HC550 (from SPD). I have a few smaller 1TB drives, so of course I'm not going to RAID. Am I putting myself into a box by forcing a 5 independent drive array with my slow build process? Or should I wait a little while and wait till I can buy at least 1 more 18TB HDD to then start a RAID configuration? I'd choose RAID 6 probably, if so. Thoughts?

Extra info: Orico 5 bay DAS (DS500C3), that I have plugged into my Asus router to use as a NAS, currently with (5) 1TB drives. Those (5) 1TB were all just individual storage drives, no RAID config. Mainly just backed up pics, personal files, movies, games, TV shows, music, etc.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/estune on 2025-02-25 02:20:15.

Hi,

I've recently bought an LG Internal BH16NS55 drive. I have connected this to my M1 Mac Mini with a USB adapter with it's own power brick. I burnt a bunch of BD-XLs and a BD-DL, and for the first few everything was great! All discs verified. Now I'm having trouble. Two BD-XLs crashed Roxio at around 98%, and then the 3rd gave me a write error: The drive reported an error: Sense Key = MEDIUM ERROR Sense Code = 0x0C WRITE ERROR

I thought it might be the file layout (?) so a few days later I've tried burning a similar file structure to one of my working burns, and it got in 14%, and progress has just stalled. I thought maybe the dialog was just not refreshing properly, and for the first burns it was saying things like 8 hours remaining... seriously buggy software! But no, it's been probably an hour and a half and it should be finished. So that's 4 expensive coasters now.

Does anyone experienced problems like this? I'm tempted to use my last BD-XL on a PC laptop and see if I can get a successful burn with ImgBurn or something like that.

As a side-note: I have to say how exceptionally bad Toast Pro is. I can't believe it's running on Rosetta still. Why can't I see any logs, cache levels or diagnostics of what's going on?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/hikaricore on 2025-02-25 00:19:49.

Hey all. I thought it might be of interest to some folks here that the custom music/beat-mapping site for Syth Riders, known as SythRiderz.com ( https://web.archive.org/web/20241127043511/https://synthriderz.com/ )

An effort to archive the data, which includes over 3,800 custom songs + mappings, and is likely not going to be put back up can be found through here the discord link here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SynthRiders/comments/1it138p/synthriderz_down/

For anyone who needs it there are couple of magnets on Discord, which I won't provide (nor the discord invite) as they likely don't need additional outside exposure.

Probably a bit of a niche, but I'd hate to see it not get into the hands of those who need it.

Edit: Removed some inaccurate information.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DrGrinch on 2025-02-25 00:04:07.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AshleyAshes1984 on 2025-02-24 23:31:33.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DepthHour1669 on 2025-02-24 22:54:37.

Well, the day has come. My 8TB external drive is failing, I can't open a folder anymore and I'm getting a "The parameter is incorrect" error when I try to mount the drive. I ran chkdsk and recovered the filesystem enough to mount, but it's getting file read errors for some files now. Clearly it's ready to be put out of its misery.

I don't want to bother doing a clone with ddrescue or something, so I started a Backblaze restore shipping me another hdd. It's just isos and videos anyways.

Anything fun I can do with the slowly failing hard drive? Run chkdisk on it continuously and record the number of failures per run, and make a graph? Any better suggestions?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/East-Joke-1771 on 2025-02-24 04:14:27.

I would love to start piecing together a NAS but feel lost and don't know where to start.

I understand I could buy a couple 3.5" HDD & a pre-built NAS to host my files.

| Server NAS | Synology D923+ | |

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| | Storage | WD Red Pro 8 TB |

It all seems a bit pricey and a bit tedious. I'm decent at following directions related to techy things, but I'll be honest this seems a bit cumbersome. I don't understand what docker is, really. Will I be able to run it using MacOS?

My setup for now, would hypothetically be, a NAS, four 8TB HDDs. I'm not sure how to set up proper redundancy, but I've read that RAID is an option.

I've got a collection of about 850GB. This includes various movies, TV shows, and books.

I'd eventually like to host my own media to get away from these subscriptions.

Any help would be very much appreciated!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/LazyCondition0 on 2025-02-24 18:42:39.

Original Title: I was told that I should cross post to this sub for help with this challenging search I’m doing for a dying friend. I’m told this sub has special skills. Please help us find the 10/5/1977 episode of $25,000 Pyramid. See text and amazing comment thread on original post in r/vintagetv

I am looking for any help I can get to find a recording of the 10/5/1977 episode of $25,000 Pyramid, which featured Kate Jackson and Mike Farrell. We believe this was the episode my dear friend Dave Frankel appeared on as a young man. Dave went on to become an Emmy Award winning broadcaster and Weatherman in Philadelphia, and later a lawyer. He and I were law partners and dear friends. Dave is very sadly at the end of his life now with end stage dementia and is in hospice at home. I am trying to find this episode as part of a tribute his family is doing for him. It would really lift their spirits. Do you have any suggestions for how I might obtain a recording like this? Thank you so much!

Edit: Hey everyone: Holy cow I’m totally blown away by how knowledgeable and supportive this community is. I am going to keep trying to find this treasure but even if I don’t, the love and support you have shown for Dave and his family is perhaps the greater treasure. Please know that I am telling his wife and kids about you guys and they are deeply, deeply moved. Please keep the great ideas coming! If it’s out there I believe we can find it.

Edit 2: Absolutely amazing news… u/emby5 found the teaser of the episode and it shows Dave winning with Kate Jackson!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBYQR7H1yNg His family has it now and they are just over the moon. We still have a few leads we are following up with to possibly still find the whole episode but this alone is priceless. On behalf of myself and Dave’s family, thank you to this wonderful sub! ❤️ I want to give a special thank you shout out also to u/tonystark63 for invaluable sleuthing and assistance.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/roarklebork on 2025-02-24 17:53:47.

https://preview.redd.it/pjewk1sih4le1.png?width=1818&format=png&auto=webp&s=e1d032a901d5b41c1979c010a7cac486fc0af838

Looking for any suggestions/improvements to my high level plan for storing and backing up my files I looked into many options and decided on staying away from a NAS since I may go days/weeks without needing to access my photos so I don't want it running all the time. I also don't want to upgrade all my networking gear.

I am most likely going to be purchasing the TERRAMASTER D8 Hybrid and using it as a JBOD since I really like the option of having NVME drives for the performance.

My primary use-case for whatever storage solution I end up going with is photo editing/storage but I also want to store my manual backups/ other files on it as well. I currently have a bunch of 4tb HDDs that I offload the projects that I access less frequently but I know have more than 5tb of photos and am finding myself shuffling them around and working across different drives which is not ideal as there is no redundancy and its a mess.

Ideally I want to have maybe the current year worth of photos on my Mac or on the hot storage volume for the best performance and all past years on the 14tb drive along with all my other files.

The second 14tb drive will be used alongside something like CCC ( carbon copy cloner) to backup the other 14tb drive as well as the Hot storage nvme drive as well.

The only files that I have that I could not live without are my photos (~5tb) and for the offsite backup I will be using amazon photos since it is free.

Its not a full 3 - 2 - 1 solution and perhaps I will work towards that in the future but its a step in the right direction.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Its11-11makeawishh on 2025-02-24 17:53:46.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Crimsn10 on 2025-02-24 16:50:35.

Hello,

I left my extern HDD at a another person's place. It has valuable data on it . Just curious, is there a way to see if somebody has acessed the files on the external hdd that I left behind? In case they peeked into it while it was there.

When I right click files to properties, to see the latest 'access' of the file, it just gives me the date and time of when I transferred the file to the drive so I'm a little confused. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong.

Would be better if I could see a history/log of when specific folders/files

Would be really great if someone could help me out...

Btw I know I made a mistake and should have encrypted or not put the info on the drive or not left it there. I just need some closure.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/fyuckoff1 on 2025-02-24 16:33:15.

https://preview.redd.it/kr7f36np64le1.png?width=752&format=png&auto=webp&s=3228dd4375381282cecb09caf4d1db22985f2706

I know it is not a big deal but I'd still like to know why. Bear in mind that this is a HDD from my first build (2011).

Could it be because it is old and probably not "healthy"?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/WFoxAmMe on 2025-02-24 16:15:51.

I've found a few inquiries about this in the past few years, but all have gone unanswered, so I'm trying myself in the hopes that there's an answer now?

Even if a tumblr page/post is deleted, the images stay on the servers. You can directly access them if you know the url. The urls are mostly randomized, but the last few characters are common to the blog it's posted from.

For example:

https://64.media.tumblr.com/a3700873ceec020232ca5a4553e36b89/tumblr_n7bwnfhjB01qcn6kso1_1280.jpg

https://64.media.tumblr.com/7d02f88696690f73d2d5eb1425ff0a67/tumblr_n1maj0MTaY1qcn6kso3_1280.jpg

So "1qcn6kso" seems to be the url for my old tumblr. 

How might I query the tumblr servers to find or download every image they have that includes "1qcn6kso" in the file name?

Or is there a fully comprehensive internet image search engine that would spit out the results? It's crazy to me that I can't use a search engine to search tumblr.com for "*1qcn6kso1_1280.jpg" and get results.

(I'm just using my old tumblr as an example, that's not the only one I'm looking to scrape.)

I've tried looking through github, but it's not clear to me that any of the scrapers do what I'm looking for.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/thomasabowden on 2025-02-24 14:48:52.

I have a Western Digital My Passport 264F external hard drive on a Windows 11 PC. I use it as my catchall for downloads. Many times each day, I call up the drive on Windows file explorer, to access something I've recently downloaded. The maddening thing is that it takes several seconds to present me with a directory of all my files. What comes up instantly is the file tree as it existed when I installed the drive many months ago. Then it takes several seconds to update, so that I can see my recent files. Is there a cure for this?

I know this is the definition of a first world problem, and I apologize if DataHoarder isn't the place for this post, but this sub came up often when searching on WD drives.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/seamonkey420 on 2025-02-24 14:36:28.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sunrisedown on 2025-02-24 14:22:10.

Hi there,

I'm wondering if the much cheaper Epson ES-500W II can ne tweaked for mass digitising of photos like the hardware-wise pretty much alike FF-680W.

As the Epson fast foto software is not working with the Epson ES-500W II, I'm wondering if vuescan could be used for this task.

To accept scans via the button on the scanner, I'm wondering if entering the path to vuescan.exe for the button works work. But I don't know whether it works, that VueScan can then carry out automatic further processing - such as cropping - or automatic adjustments to brightness or so. And how that would be set up beforehand.

Anyone has tried something similar? Or knows if that would be possible?

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Old-Fudge4062 on 2025-02-24 14:16:34.

I've got an R730 (16*2.5s) doing most of my compute stuff. How could I cheaply add 12 or so 3.5s to it for storage/archiving. Seems like an md1200 is the way to go for about $200. But for like $250 I could just get a low speced 730xd OR if anybody makes a 4u half depth DAS for 24 drives that would be awesome, but Likley way more expensive than reracking stuff to make room for a regular 2u to add to my rack. What gives, should I go disk shelf or add a whole nother server. I guess for the disk shelf I can keep it when I upgrade my r730 to an R750 in a few years? Or will at that point the 1200 feel obsolete as well. Maybe I should get an md3400? But now that's still costing more than an entire server.

OR if anybody makes a 4u half depth DAS for 24 drives that would be awesome, but Likley way more expensive than reracking stuff to make room for a regular 2u

Anybody ever make any choices like this and care to share your feelings on your decision?

I've got an 8x3.5 r530 runnnng my security cameras as well as a few optiplexes in my rack already.

Ideally I would like a shorty (half depth?)12 bay DAS I can mount bacwards in the rear and keep my keyboard tray across from it in the same 2u space. Seems like a custom AliExpress build would be the only realistic thing to do here.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/excadrill1 on 2025-02-24 14:13:21.

Is there is any method to automatically download the names and descriptions of the photos to one or more text files when downloading the content of a Flickr profile using gallery-dl?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Majestic_Dish7033 on 2025-02-24 13:56:11.

Apologies if this is not the right place to ask this. I’m tasked with acquiring the addresses for every grocery store in a county. I was told that scraping the data from Google was the best way. I would have used the NAICS code and searched on food stores in a proprietary business data set we have. It’s been a huge disagreement. My understanding is that Google only has locations that pay for ads which would not be a full list of stores (smaller stores would not be included). Anyone have thoughts about this? NAICS codes are messy as hell but they are at least comprehensive.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/WhataFunnyLooking___ on 2025-02-24 13:14:19.

Anyone know a simple way to archive and store a specific business listed on google maps? Ideally keep the same look/feel (HTML snapshot?) and including the ratings/reviews. It doesn't have to be a super scalable solution it's only for a handfull of businesses, and purely as a keepsake.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/garden-3750 on 2025-02-24 12:05:18.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/oldmatebob123 on 2025-02-24 12:02:47.