<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 July 2014 16:45, Matt Boyd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mattslists@gmail.com" target="_blank">mattslists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi mythtv people,<div>I've a big bucket of data that I'd like to store somewhere and the mythtv mailing list is about the only place I frequent where this sort of thing has been discussed. </div>
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Bascially, I've several terabytes of data across different usb drives. It's copies of technical and other data I use with reasonable metadata so I can work out what it is when I need it. I don't need to access it all regularly but it's not exactly in a useful directory structure and there's too much of it for me to even think about setting up something like that. I've been using windows search and a few other resources to hunt down the data I need when I need it which is not optimal but it does work.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The data isn't so important to me that I can afford to have an enterprise level backup system for it.</div><div><br></div><div>Ideally, what I would be able to do would be to split the data across a number of usb hard drives linked into a really redundant file system so that if one drive went down I could put another in, recover what I could from it and deal with (or not) any corrupted files when I noticed them. I'd also like the filesystem to be easily readable if the drives were pulled out and accessed individually.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is about the level of redundancy I'd like from my mythtv video data as well.</div><div><br></div><div>So maybe I'm looking for something that just disperses my data across whatever pile of disks I give it access to. I don't need the intricacies of a raid setup, but I need something more automated than just manually working out how to split directories and index them across drives.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Does anyone have any thoughts? I've started to look at LVM but it doesn't seem to have robustness that I want.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><span class=""><font color="#888888"><div>Matt</div>
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<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Take a look at mdadm RAID<br><br><a href="https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_setup">https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_setup</a><br><br></div></div>Anthony<br></div></div>