It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sperko818 on 2025-04-01 02:32:41.

I want to create at least three different backup routines. One is my Windows backup (not disc image, just the partitions required to backup and restore Windows), another is for documents, and lastly one for video and pictures. All with the monthly full, weekly differential, and daily incremental. For ease of scheduling, I want each of these to have the same start time by waking the computer, to run one after another and then shut down. I did read that if a backup has two type of backups scheduled (i,e., full and differential) at the same time, only one will run but that is for the same backup plan. What happens if I do this with three plans? I can see scheduling the monthly fulls differently, but I also have daily incremental (honestly I probably don't need it so often but a flat schedule just seems easier). And I want the computer to shut down after they are all complete. If they will run consecutively, then I think I can only have the run that runs last with the shut down option, or it'll shut down after the first backup run, yes? I don't want my backup running while I am actively using my computer, very late night is best. And I normally ever use sleep on my PC, and power saving-wise and just overall how I am, after the backups are done I want the computer completely shut down (when I'm done with my PC, I'll use sleep for the backups to work later that evening.)

Edit: Maybe just forgo the Windows backup and just do folders? I hate thinking.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/LightDarkCloud on 2025-04-01 00:09:14.

509.99

Thanks Hoarders

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Artistic-Arrival-873 on 2025-03-31 23:59:04.

What's a good alternative to Arq backup for backups to s3 deep glacier archive? I'm looking at switching since the developer keeps making dumb decisions like removing the option to select the retrieval tier and using standard rather than allowing me to select bulk like I could in older version.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AnEvilFetus on 2025-03-31 23:43:42.

I recently acquired a large amount of hard drives from my mom. Multiples upon multiples of copied folders. I CANT go through them all. I have the settings set to strict.

My question is, once it's done, I pres auto select. If I press delete, does it leave one of the photos somewhere, or is it removing ALL of the photos? I havent begun to straighten up the mess of this hard drive, but I'm starting here.

She got it so that she could backup all of her computers and devices to it. It's 14tb of STUFF.

She says there are some old pics on there from when we were younger, I've looked and everything is a mess. Subfolders on top of subfolders. Buried photos inside of receipt scans. I can't go through it all. I just don't want to press delete and lose EVERYTHING. I'm willing to sacrifice a few due to some errors, but wanted to check here to see if it "should" only be deleting duplicates if I press that button 🤦🏼‍♀️

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/highspeednodrag on 2025-03-31 23:36:16.

Just received new enclosure. My SATA drives went easily into a Sabrent single drive enclosure. But they resist going into the five. I hate to push too hard. Ideas?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/dvdrevr on 2025-03-31 21:52:46.

Hi everyone! I’m trying to understand which is the best way to copy, store and make something that will last for years without the worry to lost everything, HDD or SSD (both external devices)?

I was oriented on the SSD because nothing physically move inside so it is more “secure” but then I’ve started reading of people that had their SSD suddenly stop working after just some months. I’ve also read that if you don’t power the SSD for a long time you’ll lose files because cells discharge overtime.

So I thought, maybe HDD is a better option, in the end I don’t need the speed of an SSD because I don’t have to run games or softwares, when I need to backup something I’ll just wait it to finish if it’s slow, and I’ll just store the HDD at home being careful to not drop it and if for some reason I don’t use it for a long period of time in theory files should be still there.

… I don’t know. Need your help

Anyway right now I’ve a backup of all my photos/videos on the NVMe SSD inside my laptop, and only the photos/video that I really care/important to me are also inside my iPhone and on the iCloud, so I’ve like 3 copies of the photos/videos I really want to don’t loose but I’d like to find something (external HDD/SSD) that can replace the backup that I’ve on my laptop and is more reliable/secure.

Thank you everyone in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/UsernameTakenIThink on 2025-03-31 21:52:32.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/FarAssociation6949 on 2025-03-31 21:40:41.

I'm looking for a source where TV recordings of shows like Big Bang Theory are with original commericals so I can rip them onto a dvd and watch like old cable. I tried briefly looking on internet archive but can't find anything of the sort, any help appreciated. Thanks :)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bobodanu on 2025-03-31 21:15:39.

I haven't shucked them yet, but according DriveDX, both use the same drive model: ST16000DM001-3Y4103 Firmware: EN03. According to seagate, it's this one. https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/products/hard-drives/barracuda-hard-drive/?sku=ST16000DM001

Bought from amazon.de. Well, at least it's a CMR drive :(

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/UnkownPersonel on 2025-03-31 20:28:53.

I bought 2x OWC Thunderbay 8 a while ago but OWC's SoftRAID XT is now subscription based which is awful.

Currently using ChronoSync to make backups for 4x HDD manually which is quite effective but I want RAID 5 or 6 DAS. I do NOT use NAS and never needed it. I just need DAS to connect directly to my computer.

But so far, I only can see Synology NAS products with RAID 5,6 but I wonder if you know any DAS with RAID 5 or 6?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DavidJH316 on 2025-03-31 19:35:57.

Hi everyone. I’m setting up a UGREEN DXP2800 in a few days (first NAS) and i have a question. I want to put in a couple of drives into the nas, but instead of buying a whole new hdd, I just happen to have a m.2 ssds lying around for a past PC build. I know that the DXP2800 has 2 m.2 slots, but hypothetically if i were to have those already filled by m.2s for chaching, would it be possible to get one of those m.2 to sata adapters and use the ssds as a storage device?

Basically i’m asking if i can use one of those m.2 to sata adapters instead of a 2.5 or 3.5 inch drive

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/humandifficulties on 2025-03-31 19:18:18.

Not sure if this is okay to ask here, but I’m looking for some guidance. I am not at all tech savvy, or versed in tech.

In November of last year I very unexpectedly lost my dog, and best friend, Captain. A few months before that the folks at the us-cellular store accidentally wiped my phone. I had so many photos and videos rendered unrecoverable - just lost to the ether. I would love help finding a way to get all the photos I have of him off the social media account I used to use, I don’t have many photos of him and would like to be able to have more regardless of what happens with instagram in the future.

I have seen both instaloader and jdownloader recommended for that. The problem is I can figure out how to download instaloader or how to access jdownloder (I meant it - not tech savvy). If there is a how-to guide any of you could share, or even a YouTube video you’d recommend on this that would be greatly appreciated. I seem to just keep getting mixed or out of date info.

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/anus-georg on 2025-03-31 18:53:20.

My partner and I have a ton of stuff to go through. We realize that a bunch of the stuff will probably wind up getting deleted and that we probably have a bunch of duplicates, but we don't have the time or patience to go through it right now as we're trying to condense our physical belongings. We'd also like to maintain something with enough storage capacity for the foreseeable future.

Right now, I have:

• 10TB HDD - full (mostly sorted from prior condensing)

• 2TB SSD (x2) - both full)

• 500GB HDD (full)

• 8TB HDD (mostly full)

• 4TB HDD (mostly full but had been working on emptying)

• 4TB external SSD (full)

• 4TB external SSD (mostly full but used largely for travel, so it's often emptied and sorted into one of the bigger drives)

My partner has:

• 2TB SSD (full)

• 4TB external SSD (full from dumping files from other old computers onto)

• ...2 old laptops with maybe 1TB combined that still needs to be dumped

We'd prefer an external solution that can just be plugged in to either of our computers (PC or Mac) and accessed readily when we want, however, we'll eventually want to turn this into our own little cloud storage server.

It doesn't have to be lightning fast, but reasonable, reasonably-priced, and hardware that can feasibly last a good, long while. Hopefully under $300?

Any recommendations?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ContributionKey946 on 2025-03-31 15:56:08.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1809439-REG/seagate_st24000nt002_ironwolf_pro_22tb_3_5.html

If anyone looking for a good deal to buy more HDDs.

is ironwolf good for NAS? So far my all my disk are seagate exos

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mro2352 on 2025-03-31 15:04:45.

I have a set of disks that abce cant find an id for but it is one that has another republish that is recognized. I have seen that the software can be specified to use a particular disk id but my main question is where does the software pull its database information from so i can specify the disk id? The disk is Prince Caspian 2000 release, the one that i know has a database entry is the 2004 release.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DiamondCutter_DDP on 2025-03-31 14:36:13.

This 3.5" drive is used solely as backup to my SSD when working off the laptop on the road. It's a NAS drive too 7200rpm in an enclosure. Am I okay keeping it in my backpack or should I get a hard case with cuttable foam inside to put it in?

Just trying to save the $50 expense of the additional hard case if I can get away with it. And if I get it, it's just another thing for me to have to carry around.

If I could afford it, I would just buy another external SSD to use as backup and not have to worry about protecting it. But I just had to spring on a 4TB external SSD and don't really have it in my budget right now to get another one. So that's why im using the 3.5 NAS HDD for the time being until the prices on hard drives continue to drop.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/OmarAhmad007 on 2025-03-31 13:59:15.

Today, I began using Gallery-DL to download photos from public profiles, but have run into restriction issues from a social media platform. In order to avoid this restriction, I wish to add delays to Gallery-DL's activity while it's doing its thing. The following are two command line options to include delays in Gallery-DL's activity:

1. "--sleep"

2. "--sleep-request"

While these are explained on this webpage: (https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/options.md) , I do not understand the difference between them. Could someone please explain their difference to me so I can see which is useful for my purpose?

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Philaire on 2025-03-31 12:24:49.

Hey fellow hoarders,

Crossposting this from r/selfhosted because I figured some of you might have run into the same problem - or have a hoarding-friendly solution 😄

After spending 8 full days digitizing ~300 CD-ROMs (mostly retro PC games) plus a bunch of OS install ISOs, I'm now looking for a clean, self-hosted web-based library manager to organize, browse, and possibly even boot these ISOs.

What I'd love:

• Scan folders with .iso files
• Add metadata (title, platform, year, notes, etc.)
• Clean, searchable/sortable interface (covers or thumbnails would be awesome)
• Bonus: integration with QEMU/VirtualBox
• Self-hosted, preferably Docker-compatible

I tried Jellyfin, Plex, File Browser - nothing quite fits.

I'm ready to roll my own Flask app if I must, but I'd love to know if anyone already did something similar!

Note: All discs were legally owned and ripped - this is a personal preservation project.

If you're curious, I can share how I structured the archive too.

Here's the original post on r/selfhosted:

👉 Link to original post

Thanks in advance, and long live the stacks of spinning rust!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/q1525882 on 2025-03-31 11:51:27.

Have you experienced similar behavior with 20tb drives or other high density drives, where they like to start quite loud and significant vibration so it goes all over the PC case.

Define R6 case.

In my experience I had 4tb WD Blues with 5400, these were dead silent

Later added 12tb WD whites, these were louder but not vibrated much.

Now there are 20tb WD whites, and one of drives on startup rattles quite heavy, so it goes to whole case. Screwing it tighter to cage helped for few days, and later it broke free from the shackles again.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SuperCiao on 2025-03-31 11:41:04.

Hey everyone,

I recently converted a Blu-ray .m2ts file to .mkv using ffmpeg with the -c copy option to avoid any re-encoding or quality loss. The resulting file plays fine and seems identical, but I noticed something odd:

• The original .m2ts file is 6.80 GB
• The .mkv version is 6.18 GB
• The average bitrate reported for the MKV is slightly lower too:
• M2TS :=37766375bps, MKV: =35828468bps

I know MKV has a more efficient container format and that this size difference is expected due to reduced overhead, but part of me still wonders: can I really trust MKV to retain 100% of the original quality from an M2TS file?

Here's why I care so much:

I'm planning to archive a complete TV series onto a long-lasting M-Disc Blu-ray and I want to make sure I'm using the best possible format for long-term preservation and maximum quality, even if it means using a bit more space.

What do you all think?

Has anyone done deeper comparisons between M2TS and MKV in terms of technical fidelity?

Is MKV truly bit-for-bit identical when using -c copy, or is sticking with M2TS a safer bet for archival?

Would love to hear your insights and workflows!

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Moviesinbed on 2025-03-31 10:42:52.

I have an HP P2000 and cannot access it at 10.0.0.2/24.

It's connected to my router and directly connected to my server with USB. Server sees disk array on COM3 how can I access this and get it set up to use as a DAS?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Itzhiss on 2025-03-31 07:54:06.

Recently i was able to purchase a 2nd 12tb iron wolf for my dual bay raid hub. i am looking for a site or service to temporally upload my videos ( just copy the 4 folders i have and all the files about 3-4 TB ) then after i switch my array over to JBOD to redownload them. otherwise its going to be a hassle. just trying to go the easy route.

thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Few_Razzmatazz5493 on 2025-03-31 06:55:30.

I mistakingly bought a new Macbook with 1TB of space and didnt realize how quickly I'd use that space. I purchased a QNAP-TR-004, and just wondering if anyone has any opinions on the best HDD's to use with the device? I'm probably going to go with 4x8GB but I just don't know which has the lowest failure rate and best overall quality - thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/The_Silver_Nuke on 2025-03-31 05:52:41.

So according to some cursory research, there is an existing downloader that people like to use that hasn't been functioning correctly recently. But I was doing some more looking online and couldn't find a viable alternate program that doesn't scream scam. So does anyone have a fix for the AlexCSDev PatreonDownloader?

When I attempt to use it I get stuck on the Captcha in the Chromium browser. It tries and fails again and again, and when I close out of the browser after it fails enough, I see the following error:

2025-03-30 23:51:34.4934 FATAL Fatal error, application will be closed: System.Exception: Unable to retrieve cookies
   at UniversalDownloaderPlatform.Engine.UniversalDownloader.Download(String url, IUniversalDownloaderPlatformSettings settings) in F:\Sources\BigProjects\PatreonDownloader\submodules\UniversalDownloaderPlatform\UniversalDownloaderPlatform.Engine\UniversalDownloader.cs:line 138
   at PatreonDownloader.App.Program.RunPatreonDownloader(CommandLineOptions commandLineOptions) in F:\Sources\BigProjects\PatreonDownloader\PatreonDownloader.App\Program.cs:line 128
   at PatreonDownloader.App.Program.Main(String[] args) in F:\Sources\BigProjects\PatreonDownloader\PatreonDownloader.App\Program.cs:line 68

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jemmysponz on 2025-03-31 04:40:30.

When Game Informer was unceremoniously ended last year I recall seeing some posts about folks collaborating on maintaining an archive in some form or another of old issues.

If you haven't heard yet, Game Informer got resurrected by a blockchain company called Gunzilla Games in the past couple weeks, and on their website, they have a magazine archive going back a little past a decade up to the most recent issue. These are, as far as I can tell, copies of the actual issues, not the "digital editions" that were available through their old phone app (which no longer displays any digital issues as far as I can tell).

Would it be worth trying to pursue mirroring this archive somehow? Is it even possible? The way it's set up is that the data for each issue seems to be dynamically loaded from some other site in the form of an image and an svg of the text overlaid atop it to form each individual page, and I've run into trouble trying to establish a local mirror of any individual issue. Is it worth the effort? I only feel compelled to attempt this because I don't really trust that the revival will last for very long.