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You can only keep one directory of your storage. What folder do you pick? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by zpool_scrub_aquarium@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
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Not the top level directory, obviously.

For me, it would be my Camera directory. Worst case scenario would be to part ways with all the photos and videos I took for 15+ years, including the digital versions of a few hundred objects.

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[–] s_i_m_s@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The user profile directory? Almost everything is in there somewhere.

Not that it matters much. If the PSU went out and took everything with it i'd only lose a few hours work.

It'd be annoying but i'd probably be a lot more annoyed with having to replace the hardware.

It'd only take a few hours to restore from backup but it'd take several days to get a similar machine.

Realistically if this thing goes out i'm just going to spin it up in a VM on one of the other machines I have on hand until I can find a suitable upgrade to replace it with rather than trying to put it back like it was as it's long overdue to be replaced anyway.

[–] falco_iii@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Pictures. It’s every photo and video of my family, and backups of several other people’s photos.

[–] migm16@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

duh ~ home

[–] frioniel39@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Probably my back ups, I only have one source anyhow

[–] ben-ba@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

/Volume1 ;) guess my system

[–] zpool_scrub_aquarium@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Proxmox, I presume?

[–] Shadow_Thief@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Music

Everything else is either easy to replace or it's stuff I never access

[–] DR4G0NSTEAR@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On my server I would keep /NAS/Photos. Sure I’m loosing 45TB of everything else, but all my photos are stored in there. Some are irreplaceable, and sure they’re backed up, but I read the question as “you loose everything except the one folder”. So if I lost all my backups, Photos is the only one that would be devastating.

[–] zpool_scrub_aquarium@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Losing 45TB sounds like a rough day. Glad to hear you have backups, bro.

[–] Electronic_Wind_3254@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

/mediastack. Has all my movies, shows, music, books, audiobooks etc.

[–] 445323@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Good shit

[–] Big-Consideration633@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Stuff

[–] BobChica@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Simple: Pr0n

[–] AutomaticInitiative@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Media

It's where all my media lives - it's then split into isos, other isos, cd rips and photos etc. The other top level directories are Downloads (torrents and nzbs), Document backup, and a folder for the library files for Plex, MusicBrainz and the Plex arr ecosystem. I can't be doing with loads of top level folders.

[–] fmillion@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

/storage.

It's not the top level directory. I do have some other stuff on /data. 😂

[–] MedicalRhubarb7@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

/files

[–] Party_9001@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

/mnt/Storinator/NASty/Archive

[–] JaKami99@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

/mnt

[–] reditanian@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Well, it’s handy that the entire ZFS datastore is presented as a top-level directory. So yeah, that.

[–] rhoborg@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

/Audio Project Archive

25 (12 professional) years of music and sound design projects. Everything else can be replaced.

[–] MikhailCompo@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Donkey Pron

[–] Mabymaster@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

/mnt/*

[–] neon1415official@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

/users

[–] smstnitc@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

/audio

It contains all my music and audio dramas (star wars, hhgttg, big finish stuff, graphic audio stuff).