It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/slyfox8900 on 2025-01-16 16:51:48.

Hey there, Im new to backing up, just an average joe looking to you pros for some advice.

I recently updated from windows 10 to 11 after I built a new pc. Before building the new machine I used macrium reflect 8 free edition to create an image of my C:/ drive. I save it to a storage NVME drive i have.

My question for you guys is, can I just straight up copy and paste that Image file that macrium created to alternative backup drives to have backups of my backup? Or will macrium freakout if its not coming from the drive that I initially selected to save the image to?

I tried copy and pasting that image file to an external drive, but when I opened macrium on the new machine and tried to use the "explore image" feature. It was telling me the image file from the external drive (the one i copy and pasted) was invalid. Im wondering if it somehow got corrupted or if it doesnt work. Viewing the image file on the drive I selected intially works fine and I can see all of my original C:/ Drive files and user files etc.

I'm just rying to restore some files that didnt copy over with the windows 11 upgrade. Ie. Personal files, game saves etc. I dont want to leave that image file inside of my machine on my old NVME storage drive. I want to copy and paste it to a coupel of other external backup drives I have.

EDIT: THANKS EVERYONE FOR THE INFO!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/IXCluster on 2025-01-16 16:50:35.

Hello there,

I was wondering what's your current Data Hoarding Tools wish list that would like someone to develop for example a bulk downloader for tiktok that organizes into folders, a tool that downloads reels and organizes.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheCountofNotreDame on 2025-01-16 16:46:34.

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/steviefaux on 2025-01-16 13:53:04.

Are there any open source options for this? I've managed to grab the whole of Voyager (I have the DVDs already) that someone has AI upscaled. I'd like to do the same with the TV series Bottom but unsure how to go. I see DVDFab claim they can do it but that's paid for software. Was looking for an opensource alternative if possible.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Unstupid on 2025-01-16 13:13:55.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Precious_Angel999 on 2025-01-16 12:46:42.

Hello,

I'm a brand new hoarder. I will be taking a job on a ship that travels in the middle of the ocean with no cellular service and I just found out today that it will have no wifi either. I have a small, 4TB hoard that I really care about, this section of my hoard is backed up on 4 portable external hard drives (3 HDD and 1 SSD) in two different countries. I want to protect this part of the hoard at all costs.

What would you do if you were me? I don't care about accessing this 4TB hoard while I'm on the ship, I just want it to be safe. If i let those disks sit for 10 months, does that increase my risk of corruption? I kinda wanted to set up a NAS but now that I know I won't be able to access it over the internet, I've lost interest. Also, these drives are with my boomer dad and my ex-wife's mom, they'll be safe but i can't have these people looking after a NAS when I'm barely learning about the technology myself.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/because_im_stupid_ok on 2025-01-16 12:29:25.

TLDR:

1. How can we manage large files if we can't sort them on the phone or in any iCloud interface?
2. Is there any way to maintain a minimum amount of free local storage? (Without downloading big files right before we need them so as to force the phone to offload system data, photos, and videos?).

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Details (and a rant) that you don't need to read:

I'm a hobby photographer who is international a lot. Some days I need 2-3GBs, some days 50.

• I often retrieve / use photos from the beginning of time until now, and happily pay Apple for 2TB of sync.
• I'm at about 1.8TB, with 100k photos and 15k videos. I meticulously switch between RAW for photos that don't need it, have great file hygiene, no duplicates, and if I were to spend days combing I could probably reclaim 50-100GBs. It's just not worth my time and the decision fatigue.
• What I really want to do is identify the occasional 4k video that runs upward of 100GB's, then offload and delete them from iCloud. This would reclaim 300-500GBs.

This should be easy, right? And yet, here we are.

1. Can't sort by file size: In two thousand and twenty five, we (still) can't sort our photos and videos on an iPhone or in iCloud, whether on mobile or desktop. Forget the hoverboards we were promised. I'll settle for a basic feature we've had since before we began playing the gorillias-throwing-exploding-bananas game on DOS.
2. Can't maintain a minimum amount of storage locally: So I get that this is niche, but international travel is when I need local storage the most. Since the iPhone manages free space adaptively I can't choose to reserve a set amount. Normally this doesn't matter since domestic data is various flavors of "unlimited". But with e-sims at $15-30 per 10GB's when abroad ... cell sync adds up. So how do I keep X amount of storage locally without downloading a bunch of Netflix videos in the morning so as to force the issue artificially?

Crazy Pills:

Apple will throw an option sometimes to see your largest files as part of a warning, then remove it when it sees fit. It's the hallmark of an abusive relationship. I've read dozens of threads that echo the same behavior. I get it, Apple's biggest margins include iCloud. And the next tier from 2TB is 6TB, for a straight 3x the cost (all while, for most people, most remains unused for years).

My setup:

I have two, 2-bay Synology NAS boxes. The NAS's feed into a mini PC as the second local redundancy for a total of 24TB. This mini PC is then backed by Backblaze. And my super important things are air-gapped in a second location. I've been backing up DLSR's since the 2000s without issue. iCloud has just been this black box that I knew would explode on me one day, since it's not a proper, logical filesystem. And I admit I fell into the "it just works" trap and kept putting it off.

But today, it ends.

But let's be honest ... probably not.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CandidateNo8872 on 2025-01-16 10:01:56.

Hello everyone, i made up my mind to pay for a 4TB Hard Drive instead of continuously buying cloud storage and wasting so much money on it, i was wondering which one of these Drives are better and fail the least? There's an 8 Euro Difference between them at the moment and i was wondering if it was worth getting WD Blue for 8 more Euros that Writes Data Faster, or Seagate Barracuda that Reads Faster for 8 Euros cheaper? Thanks In Advance.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jakoh77 on 2025-01-16 06:51:05.

I've been reading lost of posts and decided that I have less than 100GB of critical data I want to store for long term. After reading recent reviews and their acquisition, I don't trust Verbatim on their quality. What are some brands or even just links to some good disks I can use for this?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Semyonov on 2025-01-16 05:10:05.

I recently bought a 20TB Seagate Expansion external drive when it was on sale for $230. I immediately shucked it and cloned my old 10TB drive to it (was running out of room for TV shows).

I used AOMEI Partition Assistant to do this. The software showed no issues and cloned and extended the partition to the new drive (which is a Seagate Barracuda ST20000DM001).

However, Windows is not recognizing the drive and the disk manager shows it as a RAW drive. When I attempted to run CHKDSK I got a message that says "The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is TV Shows. An unspecified error occurred (6e74667363686b2e 109c).

Has anyone else experienced this? I formatted the drive again and attempted the clone again, but got the same result.

Thank you.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/djiordje on 2025-01-16 03:29:57.

I have a bunch of old home video recorded onto Mini DV cassettes with a Sony Handycam (DCR-TRV18E). I cannot find the old AV cables, but I bought this converter from Amazon, hoping to plug into the S Video port on the camera, not realising the converter is also a female port only.

What's the best option? I know you can get male-to-male S Video cables, will that be able to bridge the converter or is S Video unidirectional? Am I better off getting an RCA Cable to go from the camera directly to the 3 AV ports on the converter?

Hope that makes sense, any help is appreciated!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/EarorForofor on 2025-01-16 03:16:51.

Hi

I'm a genealogist (hobby/nonprofessional) and I'm running into a project that I think the group here has better advice than my rampant manic googling.

I have a lady who's been doing this since the 60s. She's got a personal archive of an estimated 100,000 documents. She's also 94 and in a nursing home. I want/need to archive all of her collection in a digital format to preserve it, as we may not be able to find a physical home for everything she has after she passes.

Secondly I want this to be the start of a larger scale archiving program. There are hundreds of people I'm in contact with who have amassed thier family histories, and as we move into the future we risk losing it all to fire, famine, and family.

Personally I've been using my cell phone to archive by just using a bendy mount and my S-pen to snap pictures, but would like to scale up to a system designed for something like this. I've also used my vupoint magic wands with varying results.

I'm looking at scanners like the CZUR systems and the Scansnap sv600, because it's the most non destructive option. I also own two DSLRs (one with 4k) which I've used to document larger scale items like paintings and homes.

The issue I run into is that I'm left with photos full of extra space, not a nice clean square like the CZUR program is providing. Perhaps it's just me not finding the correct app, but sitting and cropping everything down sounds like driving splinters into my tearducts.

I would also like to build a kind of kit with a simple small Chromebook and some kind of scanner that I could ship to an older person who could snap and go, with a simple tutorial zoom from me. I'm not looking for full archival quality. Just something legible, simple to use, and small enough to ship. I think one of the cheaper czur would work fine with this, but what's your opinion?

Most of what I work with is flat paper, though I do have a couple books that need scanning that can't be destroyed, or brought to my house where I could build that cool box from the Archivist.

Next is what to do with all of it, but I'm going to read through the reddit first before I ask dumb questions.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Saturn_to_the_Moon on 2025-01-16 02:51:11.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/meepo5304 on 2025-01-16 01:59:14.

Im 60% into my raid initial setup before learning abt the benefits of using partition in hard drives to set up RAID. Is it possible to set these partitions after my RAID setup is complete? I really do not want to restart everything unless absolutely necessary, and if it is possible, how do I do so? (Any special requirements compared to partitining first before the RAID setup?)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Jiwts on 2025-01-16 01:03:06.

What is the advantage of purchasing a HDD enclosure when I can just plug them into my motherboard with SATA cables? I'm only running a couple of drives, and my case comes with housing for multiple HDDs underneath (near the PSU). There's like 6 SATA ports on my motherboard as well.

What am I missing here? I'm pretty new to this field so take it ez if this is dumb. I was astonished when I couldn't find anyone else online asking the same question.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/annonfella1984 on 2025-01-16 00:23:34.

So currently, the AV to USB converter, I have has given up. I am currently on the hunt for a converter, that what take AV and S-Video and is compatible with vlc media player i have a number of video 8 cassettes, and VHS C tapes that I want to convert. Is there any affordable converters that are compatible with VLC? Media player as well as OBS?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/a23ro on 2025-01-15 22:44:48.

So I have a sign language course i've found, but i will have limited access to it (it is going away soon) and i would like to download the website, every video in it, and everything but i am wondering if it is better to screen-record the lessons, but that will take a lot of time and attention that I don't have before it goes away. Any ideas?

Edit: The website is the University of Oklahoma

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/qalpi on 2025-01-15 13:57:58.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mcclownIRL on 2025-01-16 01:33:50.

I was looking at buying a spare 16TB on SPD but was surprised by the how expensive it was compared the two orders I placed last year.

I was looking at SATA Manufacturer Refurbished drives, but they don't have any at the moment, so I had to compare SAS and other similar sizes, for a price comparison. SATA would probably be a bit more expensive than the SAS model I used in the comparison.

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It's not only the HDDs that have gone up but the shipping has almost doubled as well. I'm in Australia, so the shipping is always a pain but that seems a bit ridiculous. I did get a really good deal on the Toshiba's last year but based on the prices I was seeing regularly last year, this looks like roughly a 40% price increase. Does anyone know if that is here to stay? Is there an alternative?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/FrankoTheThird on 2025-01-16 00:34:28.

I want to backup some entire drives to an external hard drive, which way is the best to do it (windows)? Is the best way to use a command like copy or robocopy?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/virster852 on 2025-01-15 22:46:29.

How can i download a video on Telegram PC if the option is disbled and the video is not playable in Web verion??

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/OfficeGreat7679 on 2025-01-15 22:41:47.

I have a setup like this Node 804 4x ssd 2Tb in raidz2 2x nvme 2Tb mirror (zfs) for vms and games disks

I have another mini pc n300 with current 1x ssd 500Gb and 2x slots for nvme. Attached to it there is a single bay usb case with a 4TB HDD (also zfs)

As of today, I use zfs send to copy things from node804 to n300 external disk for local backup (mainly photos, all config files, and some other documents)

The photos and documents, I rclone files to backblaze to have an outside copy.

This setup looks ok, but few things are bothering me. I don't have UPS, so any power fluctuations or lack of it could damage the hardware I don't like the fact my local back-up relies on a USB cased drive. I started downloading nightly builds from my favorite Linux distro on the n300 and Local disk is reaching its limit in any time soon. I'm not doing any back-up of this server, neither it's media.

I have more or less 250~300 to invest in the next improvement of this setup and I'm struggling to make a decision, so hearing external opinions might help.

I thought on building a secondary (and cheap) back up nas. I could buy just one more HDD and pair it with the existing HDD in a few months. With that I could turn it on/off on demand for running backups. Given that I would have a more reliable local backup, I could convert the raidz2 pool into raidz1 and get some extra space to move the new files content here.

Or... I could buy a UPS to reduce the chances of hw damage and get another nvme disk to the n300 to store more files. I think this doesn't change much the backup situation, but adds some level of resilience.

Maybe there is a 3rd option that I'm not seeing... What are your thoughts?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ihatetraffic1 on 2025-01-15 22:22:30.

The Game Creators Forum is being shut down on February 10th. This is alarming news because not only has the TGC forum been very influential in internet pop culture, but the wealth of information hosted on the forum will be lost and users who use TGC products will no longer have a place to find answers, solutions, etc.

I've attempted to use tools like HTTrack, Cyotek Web Copy, and BrowserTrix, but they have all been unsuccessful. I believe it may be due to the forum's Cloudflare protection which is blocking crawlers from browsing the site.

Does anyone know how to get around this issue or know of any other methods to archive this website?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/theNeedlezz on 2025-01-15 21:19:05.

Hello, I am gonna build a new PC and I want to use my old as data storage. I am a photographer and will be mainly storing media on the drives. I want to have at least 8tb of redundant storage, I will probably also add an 8tb drive in my new PC as a backup.

My questions now are: Should i use raid? Which raid to use? How many drives with what capacity would you recommend me?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/owlorla on 2025-01-15 21:12:43.