Metric Tonnes of Fun

[Thanks to UC#1 for today’s topic]

During a recent WLBOTT Disaster Recovery Symposium (WLBOTT DReSs), UC#1 addressed the digital asset infrastructure:

I started on this project on Aug 30. It took 15 days for the new drives to arrive and 5 days to rebuild the RAID.

Now I have to convert the old 3TB drives into USB external and copy tonnes of stuff. Of course, I won’t throw anything out. Not even Simply Accounting letter templates from 2004. Never know when they might come in handy.

The assembled panel inquired: Are you using RAID so that you can do a hot swap if there’s a disc failure?

Yes, it is a 4 drive QNAP NAS in RAID configuration. I can hot-swap a single drive. The upgrade procedure should have been “swap single drive & extend volume” but I didn’t realize it and just did the “swap single drive and resync”. Each drive took about 10 hours to resync and then I had to do the separate “extend volume” step which took another 10 hours.

I actually had a drive error on drive 4 before I started all this, so I was overdue on swapping the failing drive out.

Now I have all 4 of the old 3 TB drives in a Terramaster 4 bay USB cabinet.

You can show the storage, but include the rest:

Main drives:

The reason I am running out of space is primarily because of the massive amounts of video I have recovered from VHS and Super-8 tapes as well as all of the raw and edited video for Mountain Sapphire. There might be the odd downloaded video from prime in there as well.

Once I get all the files sorted into the right places I will start throwing stuff our. Or not. Maybe I’ll just leave it for my son to deal with after I’m gone.

I’m having metric tonnes of fun.