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I'm wondering how to effectively keep track of the data I hoard. I'm almost at 80TB and currently use very basic folders structure to keep track of my data. I'm looking for something like a full text index maybe even a like a search engine for local data? Is there such a tool?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where do you store 80TB of data, is it backed up?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I have two rackmounted synology nas servers and one diy running unraid

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To answer your question, I search my (albeit smaller) amount of data with Kiwix if it's a zim file, if not, the search function in Nautilus allows me to search the contents of text files.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Kiwix sounds interesting, thanks. Still looking for something that indexes my NAS though.
If found https://www.diskoverdata.com/ but that looks a bit overkill to me.