It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/menejok on 2024-08-15 16:26:28.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/digi2k on 2024-08-15 15:07:18.

I have a Mac mini that is shared on my local network, where I recently installed a 14tb drive where my wife and I store all our important data. It also has a partition where our personal MacBooks time machines are stored (backs up over WiFi). This is a new drive that I’ve used to consolidate all our old burned cds, external drives, etc.

It’s current not being backed up at all. Would it be adequate to get another 2x 14tb or larger drive and use Time Machine to back up the attached 14tb drive? I would have 2, one to keep offsite, and one to keep attached, and rotate them out. That should give me incremental backups and 3 copies of the data (the drive, the attached Time Machine backup, and a time machine backup that is kept offsite).

Is there a better solution for this? We access the drive and add/remove/modify files on it often.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/IStoppedCaringAt30 on 2024-08-15 14:31:45.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Kiing1029 on 2024-08-15 13:48:30.

Today, my drive experienced the click of death, but when I replugged the cable, the drive stopped making the clicking sound and started working normally. I performed the S.M.A.R.T. short self-test, and it completed without any problems.

Previously, the S.M.A.R.T. attribute C8 (Write Error) increased from zero to 13 on 1/8/2024, according to HDSentinel and a read error was recorded with a raw value of '1'.

Should I continue using the drive?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Lugerlover on 2024-08-15 13:33:36.

Hello there. I've been browsing galleries and manually downloading each and every image I want as a JPEG which I store descriptions in as XPcomments. Now the process is pretty repetitive as it involves having to open the properties of the JPEG using right click, then clicking the "details" section, then pasting the description in the comment box (same as XPcomment), and then finally clicking "OK".

Is there a way to immediately add the the description while downloading the image from the browser? Similar to choosing the filename, the format, and the location? I'm using Firefox in case anyone knows an extension or a method for that, but I'm open to using other browsers if an extension or a different method requires it. Many thanks in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/beingbond on 2024-08-15 12:55:08.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/__99999 on 2024-08-15 12:12:53.

880am out of NY which has graced the airwaves for some 6 decades was sold to espn last week. https://www.audacy.com/wcbs880

On aug 22nd they're playing a bunch of clips and soundbites

On The 26th they officially switch over .

I know it's news and ahhh news blah but it's Worth saving imo

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CyclingDad88 on 2024-08-15 11:29:58.

So my 4year old draws like crazy and they are getting pretty good so we want to keep a lot or at least a record of them.

I do have a cannon scanner/printer which I have used before to backup old photos. But this I believe is 600dpi. I just saw another post about backing up books and someone mentioned using a dlsr.

So what would be the best way? I already have a dlsr set up (canon 600d) which is often used for stop motion.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CyclingDad88 on 2024-08-15 11:24:42.

About to run out of space on my Synology DS920+ with 2 10TB EXOs (3.5 years old) in it. (2/4 bays used)

Raid is SHR

I am looking at 1 more for now (I think this makes sense)

10tb Exos £199

16tb Exos £279

Either will give me 9.1tb extra of space - while the 16tb would allow me to go to 32.7TB while the 10TB only to 27.3tb

Is it worth going toward 16TB to try and get more space in the future?

Extra info

• Currently, it looks like we fill just under 2TB per year 90% is photos/videos - but I would expect this to grow with the family and technology.
  • So I would expect the next HDD purchase to be in 3 years - but also the warranty on exoes I believe is 7years, so at this point should I be thinking of replacing my 10TBs?
• I run a youtube which accounts for 0.5tb over the last 1.5years but likely to move this to long term storage while new projects will be larger.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Iniquitousx on 2024-08-15 09:52:23.

I am looking to digitise my collection of non-english books, most generally don't exist as ebooks. Is the archivist scanner still the way to go for amateur digitising? Or is there a better way? I have already digitised some black and white, text only books using the cardboard box cut in half system plus the vlfat app for okay results but it doesn't work well for preserving colour illustrations.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AggressiveShoulder83 on 2024-08-15 09:01:08.

Hi everyone, I need a new external drive, the Canvio flex seems great thanks to its portability (I play on a potato laptop) and USB-C connection which could be useful to backup my phone.

Is it ok or would I have some issues ? Any other (more affordable if possible) suggestion ?

Thanks in advance.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Raptorsquadron on 2024-08-15 07:51:44.

I have a lot of image files stored scraped off the web, some of the images with only size or resolution difference, or just a details tweaked. It's exhausting playing find the sniper for duplicated sets of images when they are 99% match.

I have tried dupeguru, czkawka, and Fast Duplicate file finder.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/death_in_july on 2024-08-15 05:28:21.

Title. The /lit/ wiki was taken down recently as Fandom no longer wants to associate with 4chan (which is understandable). So far nothing has happened yet, but if they're taking down /lit/ then /v/ and /mu/ are probably next.

I'm trying to archive it myself as my attempts to get other people to come together and archive it have failed, but I have no experience with these things and it's just not working out; I can't get this shit off the ground.

Say what you want about 4chan, I'm well are that it's gone very far down the toilet in the last 8ish years, but this wiki has over a decade of history and thousands of descriptive charts about all kinds of genres, artists, cultures, and moods put together by passionate anons. It would be a real tragedy to lose it all.

Any advice is appreciate I guess, although I'm so inexperienced that anything short of someone walking me through it one-on-one probably wouldn't be enough. And I know, NYPA, but I'm running out of options and this situation requires someone who is a lot more competent than I am, so if anyone would come forward to help preserve the wiki, that would be fantastic.

Thanks.

Edit: Here is the link to the music wiki: https://4chanmusic.fandom.com/wiki/4chanmusic_Wiki

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TrekkiMonstr on 2024-08-15 03:09:56.

I've just graduated college, and I want to download everything. The only thing that seems easy was my Canvas submissions. The things I can't figure out, but aren't so important: bulk downloads of all course content/Canvas pages. The things I can't figure out, but would really like to: comments/annotations/grades on Canvas assignments, Crowdmark and Gradescope submissions with annotations/comments/grades, and preferably the performance reports as well. Very weird that they don't have a takeout option, given CCPA and GDPR and such -- anyone know what's up with that? TIA

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Wise_Order_1196 on 2024-08-14 23:21:44.

I have many TB of photos managed by Lightroom. I noticed during backups that very old photos that I hadn't edited in years were changed (different hash, different binary contents), leading to them being backed up during rsync. Upon doing a binary diff, it turned out that while the photos hadn't visibly changed, Lightroom likes to randomly rewrite and update photo metadata inside DNG's for example, even when just browsing photos and not performing any edits.

For this reason it's best to keep photo folders that you no longer edit as read-only. I only keep new photos as writeable, everything else is read-only.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Bloodmeister on 2024-08-14 21:15:47.

Original Title: I started the free trial for sync.com yesterday. Speeds were decent 40-90mbps. But today they are throttled to 6-10mbps. Is this normal? Is there any throttling beyond a data limit? Can I know the normal upload speeds sync.com users get? (the download speed is still normal)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/_RyeBread97 on 2024-08-14 19:41:44.

Like the title states, is there anyway to download subscriber only TikTok’s? My usual TikTok downloader extension doesn’t work on them

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/aztracker1 on 2024-08-14 16:34:20.

I currently have 3 sets of arrays on two NAS devices (6x12tb, 5x12tb, 4x12tb) which will probably hold me for the next 3 years or so given my growth trends.

The real question is, what do you do next? I'm starting to think that a small CEPH cluster or similar may be the next stage. What is everyone else using once you step into the 100tb+ range for storage?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SylvieSerene on 2024-08-14 14:47:21.

I have quite a few files which are pretty much obsolete in the internet and some are borderline lost media which I want to store in places other than Internet Archive because the constant sues it gets makes me very uncertain for the future and gives me anxiety.

So where do I dump all these files in so that anyone or atleast I can safely access them and restore it back to my device?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/beastbits on 2024-08-14 23:39:51.

I am running two NAS in very different locations. NAS 1 should be backuped regularly to NAS 2 but should not be physically moved. Both NAS are accessible in one Tailscale network. However, a backup tool like FreeFileSync can easy scan for differences in both drives, but syncing over the internet will take many days due to a slow connection. Is there any way/software that can prepare a backup by scanning for differences online but then allowing the heavy coping by using a USB-Stick or external harddrive (that can be moved)?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/iTitleist on 2024-08-14 23:21:42.

Hi folks,

I want to build a NAS with power efficiency in mind. However I'd want to run several services too therefore moderate CPU would make sense for me.

Electricity cost in Europe is crazy

I'd like to use Seagate exos x16 HDD

Any suggestions appreciated

Best regards

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Jazzlike-Luck2767 on 2024-08-14 20:41:03.

Is there a way to download ALL of the posts on someone else's Instagram account all at once? (i need it for about 1k posts)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/hesdeadjim11 on 2024-08-14 20:20:12.

hey everyone. i i want to set up drive mirroring for redundancy and i am reading conflicting information so maybe some of you can clear this up.

if i mirror my drive can i remove the drive when powering down and read / copy the data onto my other pc should the motherboard fail? or even if i want to do it on a whim?

is it possible to mirror the data drive and not the boot drive? in my system they are seperate.

i dont want raid, backup and restore, etc. etc that does not work for me.

ps. i am fully aware that mirroring is considered raid

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ruthlessreuben on 2024-08-14 20:04:59.

How do you all organize and make your ebooks accessible? I want a single library for them and to be able to keep annotations and highlights with the file. EPUB makes that hard because they don't export with the file but stay locked in the reader you made them in. Thus, I can't start reading a book on my laptop and then move to my tablet and pick up where I left off.

The other issue I run into is I do a fair amount of research and like to export these notes to my notes app. I like/need citation information, such as which page or chapter it came from. A link to that spot would be even more ideal. I've managed to do this in some instances with Calibre, but again, it only works on my PC and not mobile. I don't want to have to think "Oh, i may want to read this on my tablet or my Boox later so I better transfer it now". Plus, as I've said, I lose my notes and annotations.

Kindle works well for this but I'm trying really hard to not use big tech's software and systems so I can control and own my data. I am using open source as much as I can, but there does not seem to be a good ebook solution that closely replicates Kindle's features. Even tried using Moon Reader as I can save and sync my reading locations, but there's no PC app for that. Zotero is close but the android app lacks EPUB support and though it is supposed to be coming soon, I'm not sure that is the system I want my entire library in as I already use it for work research and it would get super cluttered if I dumped another 5k ebooks into it.

Any one got any solid ebook solutions they're using? Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/theaznrocker on 2024-08-14 19:01:44.

Hi! I'm a filmmaker, and I have about 40 hard drives of various sizes in my closet. I'd like to be able to search all of them without having to plug them in, and have a good overview of what's going on with all of them. I searched around, and Neofinder looks okay, but the layout is clunky and the search is outdated. How do you guys manage all your drives and files? Is there a more modern way to do this?