On 29 Jul 2016 7:03 pm, "Piers Rowan via luv-main" <[email protected]> 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?
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