It's A Digital Disease!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/thecoffeebin on 2023-08-16 06:38:05+00:00.

I'm no longer using my account hence would like to let it go at a discounted price, please contact me if you're interested!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/jojonakanono on 2023-08-16 06:14:24+00:00.

Is there such a thing under $500?

I have a large stack of 11x17 (tabloid) documents. Would love to not have to scan each individual page on a flatbed scanner.

Thanks!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/kajEbrA3 on 2023-08-16 05:04:02+00:00.

I recently restored some old backups and spent several days "carefully" de-duplicating my data. I wrote a script that takes output from jdupes and does some stuff with it. There was a mistake in the code and now I'm not sure how much data I lost, because guess what.. I deleted the old backups. I guess i shouldve never deleted anything in the first place. Don't be like me.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/XxRoyalxTigerxX on 2023-08-16 04:28:38+00:00.

I've got a ton of photos I plan to digitize and I was already in the midst of thinking about putting together a server that I'll use to backup stuff and maybe also set it up as a Plex server , I was thinking of grabbing an old server off eBay, slap some drives in and call it a day after installing Linux but obviously that's not exactly the least janky backup solution out there

I plan to follow 3-2-1 but what is considered a "safe" local setup

I was planning to use ZFS if that matters

Thanks for any advice you have 👍

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/ParasiticDeer on 2023-08-16 02:47:04+00:00.

Hey there,

I've been using telegram for quite a while now, and I was wondering if it was possible to export a whole chat (With around 10,000 messages.) without using Telegram Desktop? As it requires a 64 bit system and I currently lack the resources for it. I only want the texts, I don't care about the media that might be in the chat

I currently use Telegram on Android and Telegram web on a Windows 32 bit system.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/JebryyathHS on 2023-08-16 02:37:07+00:00.

There's a project you can donate to that helps preserve GOG games. I'm sure many of you know what I'm referencing. The issue is I can't tell how much space all the games + updates + extra materials take up because my connection to the server keeps dying before it calculates the total size.

Anyone know?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/ominousvult on 2023-08-15 23:17:17+00:00.

Been lurking for a while, decided to post.

As the title says, I acquired a decom'ed NetApp device and was able to get it back to all factory settings, wipe the drives, and basically have a fresh start. I have zero experience with NetApp CLI commands and the ol' Googly hasn't been doing me much good. Anyone have a quick crash course on how to get this guy set up? I have it on my network, it pings, etc., but I mostly need help setting up storage pools and such.

I'm aware that in order to update the ONTAP software I need a license, which I don't have nor will I be able to obtain. I did kind of figure out how to get the device to enable HTTP/HTTPS and the web server, but there's no web GUI built in. My research determined that my ONTAP version doesn't support a web GUI. I also know there's software out there that lets me interface from my PC to the NetApp, but again, it looks like I need a license or at minimum a login to NetApp's site, which I can't get.

Thanks in advance!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Carljammers on 2023-08-15 23:10:45+00:00.

I have a real head scratcher.

I have a 18tb external connected to a Linksys WRT32X, running dd-wrt. HDD is formatted in ext4. I'm running samba to share the drive on the network, for a plex server. After rebooting my router for a network related issue, all data that had been written to the drive in the past 2 months vanished. Not only that , but tv shows that I had deleted magically reappeared?

It's like the drive entered a worm hole. I have the data backed up on another drive, but am curious what would cause this? Rma the hdd?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/McBezzelton on 2023-08-15 22:41:35+00:00.

There seems to be a lot of experience in this community on how to properly do RMA for a SSD. I was wondering if anyone can give me some tips on how to send this nvme ssd 2280 back to silicon power for RMA by that I mean who is the best for price to ship it and what kind of packaging will keep that small thing safe so it doesn’t split it half on the way or something and they blame me

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Fit-Arugula-1592 on 2023-08-15 22:03:28+00:00.

So the 4070 has one 8th Gen NVENC while the 4070 TI has two. Does it mean in terms of encoding, the 4070 TI can encode twice as fast?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/AnnaArchivist on 2023-08-15 20:39:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Nashable on 2023-08-15 20:30:37+00:00.

Looking for some advice. I have 8x18TB drives where I do not care about losing individual files in case of a HDD failure. So I don't need a raid setup. Anything worth keeping is stored on a separate solution. This is just for transitory files that will often be stored for 60-90 days before being deleted and ideally I'd like to automate it as much as possible.

I've picked up a Mediasonic USB 3.1 8 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure to store the drives. The device will be connected to a Windows 10 machine. Ideally my goal is not to run as a JBOD as the software handling the media file management would require constant reconfiguration as to what default drive it would drop to.

What I'm looking for is a way in Windows to present the device as a single drive and path, like a spanned drive, but unlike a spanned drive I don't want to have to delete the entire volume if one of the disks fail. Is there a solution that would allow me to simplify the 8 disks into a single drive/volume?

Also as when I've searched similar questions, people shared that this is a "Bad Idea", I get that. Anything I want to keep is stored elsewhere and backed up in the cloud. This is just for stuff I don't care if it gets lost due to HDD failure.

Appreciate any thoughts folks have

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/FantasySokka on 2023-08-15 19:57:36+00:00.

I have three video files, movies, of about 36, 38 and 39 GB. I haven them on my PC ona HDD drive. They are mkv files 4k HDR blue ray etc etc. I have a USB stick of 256 BG, not sure what brand it's a small silver USB with no brand name on it. When I transfer one movie over to the USB it works fine I can play it. However, when I transfer the second one it won't play and anything after that it won't play. Doesn't matter the order whatever movie I first transfer it works and the rest won't work. I have tried the USB on exFat and NTFS, it only has those two, the same issue happens. I have tried playing it with VLC, Windows Media, but nothing. I would sometimes get an error saying the file is corrupted or it's a virus, but I scanned everything and no virus. If it's getting corrupted I don't know how and how to stop it.

The first video I transfer works but the rest won't. When I eject the USB and plug it in again the movies that didn't want to play are no longer there but the memory is still occupied. I tried the Error Check thing it finds some errors and says they are fixed but the files are not back and the memory is still occupied. When I transfer files again, it doesn't reset or something it just adds more. The only way to resolve it is to format the USB. I have to idea why it's happening and how to resolve it. I tired Goggle and only thing I can find is the error check, unhide the files etc. If anyone has any idea it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you again.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/whogivesafuck1321451 on 2023-08-15 19:36:59+00:00.

If this is impossible, can someone please explain why?

All the tools that I’ve tried so far were able to download the source code, and some of the assets but not the videos on the site. If this is impossible, can someone please explain why?

I can provide the link to the website I’m trying to download from if that will be useful for answering the question.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/talkingBird2345 on 2023-08-15 19:31:55+00:00.

I plan on using a raspberry pi with a large MicroSD for a NAS storage that is mainly supposed to act as backup. Since my Network is only at 10 MB/sec anyway, the slow speed should not be an issue but I am wondering if there are any other disadvantages about using a MicroSD card as a data dump.

Of all the storage devices that failed me, I never had a broken sd card and since it is rarely read and even more rarely written, I would assume that reliability is not an issue either?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Eskimo565 on 2023-08-15 17:44:59+00:00.

The camera model is also in the pictures meta data and would be useful for me to have them separated like this. I just want the folder structure, not software that can display these images this way. Anyone knows a tool that will help me do that? even a python script maybe?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/horpheus69 on 2023-08-15 17:10:28+00:00.

So I'm wondering before I get my NAS Is it possible for me to use my laptops GPU for plex hardware transcoding While the plex runs off the NAS?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Miv333 on 2023-08-15 16:48:44+00:00.

I'm trying to move a directory to another directory within the merger fs, but it's running like it's a copy command instead, it's taking forever for only 203 subdirectories.

/srv/mergerfs/filesystem# mv torrents/Movies/ data/torrents/Movies

Did I run my command wrong, is there a better command to run? Is it running like a copy because mergerfs is technically a merger of multiple drives?

Edit:

When I ran this command previously by mistake it was near instantaneous:

/srv/mergerfs/filesystem# mv Movies torrents/Movies

Edit2: I was able to figure out, but still not quite understand, that the files all existed on one drive, and were trying to move to another drive with the mv command, so that's why it was copying. Probably something to do with how I created folders or idk.

Solution was move the files inside the drive it's self, not through mergerfs.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/ungerfox on 2023-08-15 16:16:36+00:00.

Hello All!

I've been tasked by my girlfriend's grandmother to look through her late husband's hard drives. My plan was to go through each drive and copy media and documents and organize them in their respective folders. The issue I'm running into is time, she handed me over two dozen drives (he was a computer guy that liked to tinker).

Any idea how to efficiently get this done, whether through a script or software?

Thanks!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/ThePlebble on 2023-08-15 15:53:44+00:00.

So, like many people, I like to gather clips of gameplay and organise them. My current system is sorting them into categories, and then subcategories, in the form of file directories. However where this falls apart is when I have a clip that satisfies multiple categories/subcategories; as I don't want to have any instances of duplicated clips.

I'd be looking for some kind of software/system that can track all of the clips in a database and associate tags to them, possibly even allowing me to 'checkout' a selection of clips and remove them from the system to be edited and cut to a final video.

I came to you guys because I'm about 🤏 this close to starting development based on my specifications, but I know this will take an incredibly long amount of time for something that probably wont see the light of day; so I wanted to do a final check to see if there was an existing solution similar to what I described.

(my full specifications are slightly more complex than described above, but broadened here to increase the chance of finding an existing solution.)

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Eikuld on 2023-08-15 15:27:32+00:00.

Original Title: Greetings, I apologize if this isn't a right sub but this sub frequently comes up while looking for troubleshoot for Video DownloadHelper addon so was hoping if you guys can help me out. Tested both Firefox and Chrome.

So basically the issue I came across is that the video I attempt to archive is from a course, and it appears to download fine but when played, for the first 18ish seconds, the entire video was played but sped up, and it freezes at the end of 18 second mark. If I skip it ahead, it stays stuck at a still frame for the rest of the 3 hour video but the audio works fine. I was wondering if you guys have any idea? I tried to test it on YouTube but it doesn't seem to work even with Firefox. I tried it on AP news but the video seems to be bit chobby, kind of rubberband lag. Not sure if Im allowed to tell which website Im archiving from but if not, please let me know haha. Thank you!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/PowerTripper on 2023-08-15 14:58:48+00:00.

Hey everybody,

I have a specific problem and I'm hoping my fellow data hoarders could give me a hand here. I have endless amounts of 512GB M.2 drives (pulled from End of Life laptops from my previous employer) and I'm trying to find a way to create a NAS of some kind to utilize as many as humanly possible. I also have a bunch of 8GB and 16GB RAM SODIMM sticks and obviously laptop motherboards on hand, as well as a previous motherboard from a computer I've since upgraded from, so they're in the mix to be used if needed if it's required for a suggestion. I've seen some conversations here regarding M.2 NAS setups and projects, but nothing really fit the bill for this specific problem.

Price is a huge concern unfortunately (at least at the moment as I just finished a contract and am currently looking for work) but I'll definitely take any and all suggestions...maybe I can utilize a pricier configuration later when money isn't so tight!

I've seen some pretty wild projects using SBCs, but I need either a huge amount of available ports, or something that (optimally) would be expandable to match the sheer amount of them I have, lol. I'm shooting for storage in the 10+ TB range at a minimum, due to the sheer data I have on-hand. I also looked at picking up a cheap older rackmount maybe, but I'm having a hard time conceptualizing a possible setup in a way that would make use of as many as possible. Also, I don't have a great deal of server hardware experience so I'm basically accepting what I don't know, and going to the people that do know...and have far more experience and knowledge in these affairs than I.

Thanks everybody, I appreciate any info you can give me in this regard!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/bmacabeus on 2023-08-15 14:14:58+00:00.

I'm trying to backup a set of old CD ROMs. Initially, I tried to use the built-in Disk Utility tool from macOS, but since it failed, I searched on this subreddit for recommendations, and I found Roadkil Unstoppable. So, I gave it a try too.

Unfortunately, both of them failed. But I wonder if my external CD ROM reader is the root of the issue since it starts a weird sound. And I was forced to restart my computer to (safely?) eject the CD.

Here's the moment that Roadkil's Unstoppable stuck.

Can the root of the issue be my CD ROM reader? It's new since I bought it from Amazon recently.

If yes, can someone recommend me one better? Or something else that I can try to do to preserve these images? There is no backup for them on Internet Archive, and I would like to save them.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/UsePerfect6963 on 2023-08-15 11:22:01+00:00.

Hi all, I recently started my own tiny design agency (well it's mainly me with support from my partner on the business side). Embarrassed to say that after years of working for agencies and becoming highly experienced in my field, I've always relied on the agencies larger infrastructure and I.T. teams to worry about backing things up. I've always dabbled in freelance too (like most designers), but the scale of that has always been backed-up on basic external pocket hard drives. Now I'm working on my own and handling HUGE files regularly I need some advice. I need all the usual things - basic storage, back-up, fast & regular access, as affordable as possible (my income is still a little behind where I hope to be in the next 6 months).

I work very long hours and on a lot of projects (and I work from home). So as well as peace of mind I also need very quick access to everything (and some projects go on for months and months).

I was looking at SanDisk Professional G-RAID 2 40TB (I'm so naive with this stuff that spending for 40TB to only use 20TB hurts ha), but not sure if it's the right move and when spending that much, it's quite scary. It's so pricey (though I've found a deal for it somewhere but it's still OTT price), but is it worth the investment?

Thanks and sorry for being so dumb with this stuff.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/patrickoriley on 2023-08-15 08:41:59+00:00.

I just did a youtube stream and I am able to watch the entire thing at the link below, but youtube says it is lost, so i cant share it publicly on my gaming channel. Any ideas on how to save it? It plays in full at the link below:

Every downloaded i tried either fails or says "live stream has ended" and 4k downloader just keeps starting over.