I lost 2-3 hdd’s due to old age and lost all data on them. Some other 2-3 hdd’s make a lot of noise while in operation and probably failing. I use VVV to catalog the stuff and to see which files have 2-3 copies, i need to manually search each file name. It’s really tedious. I was wondering if there is another program that does this automatically. I let it scan the hdd’s and it makes catalogs of each hdd and tells me which files don’t have duplicates when i press a button. I have like 18 hdds ranging from 500GB to 4TB full of data so manually searching is too much work now.

  • MNByChoice
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    1 year ago

    Sounds like something a backup solution like Bacula would handle. However, I am not quickly seeing a solution.

    Are you physically swapping hard drives in and out of your system, or are they all connected at once?

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      1 year ago

      yes, can’t connect all hdd to laptop so only using 1 drive at one time in an external enclosure. some drives are portable drives, some are internal drives. its a mix of internal and external drives.

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    How come you don’t make backups instead? IE; do a backup to a drive using Borg or something, then you’re not manually managing files.

    Also if these are important files consider also backing them up online, Restic to a service like Wasabi or Backblaze B2 is a good option.

  • e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net
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    1 year ago

    This is what RAID is for. Duplicate, or at least spread, data across multiple disks so that a failure of one disk doesn’t result in data loss.