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Stardate: 20220115.1208
Location: xiled rumination concentrator
Input Device: xrc console connected to pisendai virtual maschine
Audio: silence of the concentrator occasionally interrupted by a
distant, muffled leaf blower.
Visual: xrc cramped interior
Emotional State: settling in.
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SDF user, nm03, wrote about playing around with Raspberry Pis and
organizing data during his 4 day weekend [1] and in more recent
phosts. I have been in that mode as well since the downtime during
the holidays. nm03 updates his gopher hole [2] regularly and I enjoy
reading about his daily happenings over in Japan.
A few years ago, I centralized my data, as well as my family's data,
on a NAS using a Raspberry Pi 2 running openmediavault. During that
time I just kept manually adding folders each year and adding the
files for that year, but not too much organization. I also kept
adding USB storage and manually backing up as needed (which was
frankly less frequent than I should.) This year, I am going to try
something different.
The Raspberry Pi 2 is still in good, working order, so I will still
be using that device, but only limiting the data of that device for
the current year. Should the device happen to fail, not a big deal
to rebuild. The data wIll only contain family/personal data:
documents, audio, pictures, videos, and nextcloud backups. The server
will be backed up automagically to an external drive, which will
eventually reside on an archive server (TBD, older, repurposed x86
PC.)
There will also be a separate Raspberry Pi 2 (yeah, I got a few of
those) that will be the repository for other files for that year,
like documentation, media files, ebooks, stuff found on the
Intarwebz, stuff that is basically replaceable and not personally
generated content. This will also be automagically backed up as
well.
I am hoping that I can get more order and manageability to the data
moving forward. In the meantime, I have much data to sift and sort
through, not only from the previous years' NAS, but also the
external drives that I have dumped to over the years pre-NAS.
Hopefully, the data is still accessible and can be migrated to
newer storage.
My data and my family's data storage requirements are not
extravagant and is quite manageable if attended to regularly.
I guess I would consider myself to be the family's data archivist.
Nobody else is doing it. Prior to me, I don't think we ever had
any kind of family archivist on either side, especially in the
digital sense. Hopefully I am wrong since I would find it most
fascinating to learn more about my upstream, aside from random
old pictures and spoken narratives from individual family members.
Moving forward, perhaps the care with this data is part of what I
can add to my own legacy for the familial downstream.
[1] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/nm03/2022/JAN2022/entry_7
[2] gopher://sdf.org/1/users/nm03/
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