how do you guys sort your personal data? the archives you collected over the years? documents, pictures, images, code you wrote?
Do you encrypt your data?
Did you already set up an encrypted auto-sync /home folder synced with your encrypted homeserver which again tarballs your data every 24hrs and syncs it with the cloud?
I want to know how you master this behemothian task of self organization.
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>how do you guys sort your personal data? the archives you collected over the years? documents, pictures, images, code you wrote?
Comfy thread. Let's do this.
I have one hard-drive for each kind of topic:
D:\ = Movies
E:\ = TV
F:\ = Games
G:\ = Porn
H:\ = Music and podcasts
I:\ = Virtual machines
J:\ = Software
I don't back up these, with the exception of the Software drive as I have a really nice collection of tools and programs I use extensively.
I also have 2x10TB drives I use for my """"important"""" files.
On those I store a copy of the folder structure and all filenames on the other drives as well as torrent files in case I should need to download the content again. I also store a backup (.rar file, with parity) of the software drive.
On these drives I have folders for each "topic". Excamples are "images" which contains 2 TB of images, "Datasets" which contains a couple TBs of data sets for machine learning, "3D" which contains 3D modeling and simulation projects, "Gamedev" which contains game engines and project files, assets, etc, "Photogrammetry" which is 2 TB of photogrammetry project files, "Programming" which contains all my programming projects, "Literature" which is books and scientific PDFs, "Finance", "Health", "Work", "Memories", "Important documents", "Projects", etc.
These folders are individually comprssed and archived in password protected winrar archives with 25% parity. They are in turn backed up on twice, one off site and one on site backup. I refresh and rotate the backup once a year.
>I want to know how you master this behemothian task of self organization.
What do you have trouble with?
Everything I need to "keep safe" is stored on all my phone and my computers. Everything is frequently synced with syncthing : important files, music, documents and ebooks. Everything in my home directory (except videos) can be stored on a 10Gb USB stick when I need to format or just set up a new computer, I archive my home folder on a USB key only once a month.
Videos are deleted after watching it if I'm running out of memory or if the videos are not important.
My GNUPG keys are stored on a USB stick.
I'm not using encryption yet and my setup is really bad for big folders but at the moment it's enough for me. I will certainly set up a home server for this task.
How can you do all your computing at
syncing home folders on different machines usually leads to difficulties but keeping files in other places besides home folders usually leads to a lot of copy/pasting
I use a 128GB USB 3.1 stick. It's not ideal, but I only transfer files between work and my home computer so it's okay. I email it if it's just text or a small amount of data.
I don't trust syncing, I need to do it manually so I feel I have control.
>tfw everything's on ntfs drives
>everytime I go look for something i notice more corrupt files
The vast majority of my data sits on my server's RAID6 array. This array is backed up in its entirety to a couple of external, offline drives each month (or more often, if I added something very important to the server and want to back it up immediately).
Simple-ish setup.
Homeserver running openmediavault without encryption at rest or RAID. Have this set up as a VPN server as well so I can VPN into my home network and access the large files stored on it.
For smaller files I use SyncThing.
No encryption at rest for now, might do that next time I overhaul everything. Might switch to virtualizing things and/or using freeNAS.
Overall happy with the trade-off between ease of setup/use and other features. Will have to turn on RAID and do the encrypted files in the cloud or somewhere else for extra redundancy once I start putting critical stuff like important photos etc on there.
You're not supposed to install tools in your home directory.
> documents, pictures, images, code you wrote?
Folders and for media files not made by me, I just feed them into hydrus. The shared tag database elevates the chances of me finding something again.
> Do you encrypt your data?
Yes, whole drives.
> Did you already set up an encrypted auto-sync
Yes. Syncthing and otherwise. But I do not sync to the "as a service" cloud, it's going to my own astorage.
Also it's not a 100% backup - I generally sync important shit only.
>implying we keep anything
Negro the feds are right around the corner. More data = more legal fees.
10GB is only for my home directory, not softwares.
>How can you do all your computing at
I mean real software though user, software you can use for actual work. Not linux software.
A half terabyte stash on a RAIDed volume, in a folder called "D" in the root, with about 500 subfolders (only first level) and 3k files outside those folders. I think i should order them sometime.
I also have 30 "New Folder (??)"s and 50 "New Text Document (??)"s in it, and a healthy amount of folders and files named by the combination of the letters "asd"
i got a very messy computer with random files laying round everywhere and unfinished projects. when i try to sort things in folders it just become messier
Get btrfs or zfs now.
I don't do anything but my porn is in a .rar file disguised as a .MP4 that's hidden inside a usb stick that's hidden inside a copy of MGS3 which is in the middle of my fuckton of PS2 games. I only fap once a week so it's not too invasive.
I just have everything in /home and /home/.private
Of course anything from stock markets over to air traffic control and most of the internet magic and production robots etc. are running on Linux.
Even cashier's scanners and the credit card transactions are probably backed on a Linux server, as is likely the related logistics system.
Figures they just don't let you near modern valuable computers and software?
