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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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