On 29 Jul 2016 7:03 pm, "Piers Rowan via luv-main" <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
Friday random semi-serious question;
Like many people I have too much data some work, some create some family,
some other...etc. I have some on some backup USB drives that I have never gone back to and also a few unplugged HDD's in the tower (I can't remember even why).
I don't really want to go and buy something (or pay for data of cloud
storage) but I thought I might do something with the stuff I have lying around. Does anyone know if this is possible:
- Set up a Raspberry Pi server which exposes a single file system - Link it to the USB HDD's of different sizes that I have lying around - I save my data to it for backups - The data is placed redundantly over the drives so it can recover from
one [or more] dying
Bonus point: - I can remove one of the drives and access the data on it directly (so
it is FAT32 not Linux RAID)
Any ideas? GFS?
Not to distract from Piers's enquiry but isn't home cloud an oxymoron?