On 29 Jul 2016 7:03 pm, "Piers Rowan via luv-main" <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
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> Friday random semi-serious question;
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> 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).
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> 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:
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> - 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
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> Bonus point:
> - I can remove one of the drives and access the data on it directly (so it is FAT32 not Linux RAID)
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> Any ideas? GFS?

Not to distract from Piers's enquiry but isn't home cloud an oxymoron?