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Looking for a tool for browsing contents of unmounted cold storage (feddit.org)

submitted 3 days ago by Mopplikus@feddit.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello everyone, I'm in the process of setting up long term storage of a large amount of media files for my family. Since this is stuff that's rarely accessed, I don't need it to be always fully available, and I want to limit the actual transfer of files to a specific schedule.

Since knowing what's already in storage is kinda non-trivial, are there any tools out there that allow me to browse which files are in cold storage, without the actual drives being attached / mounted? So only info like file location, name, metadata, perhaps icon, etc.

The transfer part I can manage to automate, as I can think of a few ways of allowing my users to "stage" pulling and pushing info from and to cold storage, and having the transfers be done on a fixed schedule like every two weeks or something.

Obviously self-hosted, open source stuff that's not vibecoded is preferred.

Thanks in advance!

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[–] Mopplikus@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago

Good question, as it's not really obvious from the post. There's simple stuff such as energy savings, preventing unneeded file indexes, preventing corruption, etc. The biggest reason is mostly situational to me, as I've taken over a bunch of drives from friends who renewed their own, which have been running in their respective NAS setups. The drives are definitely not new but have a reasonable remaining life span. I kinda realized that I don't need the media files to be available at all times, so to squeeze the most out of the drives, I wanted to try this strategy.

I haven't yet tried adjusting spin-down options as it's more predictable when I "manually" spin the drive up and down. I'm afraid the random seeks will still spin up the drives several times a day and hurt them over time.