For some time I've been building this big collection of curated media, mostly books, movies, music, TV shows, and even video games. The idea is to preserve it for as long as I can while it keeps growing, independently of the changing criteria of on-demand providers and without relying on the ephemeral data available on the Internet. Also, my future children will still be able to watch Disney movies as they were before its dialogues got corrected now that everything offends us.
The setup has been changing along the years. Currently it consists on a ZFS pool striping data over two 4TB disks on my main computer, which periodically get replicated to my home server/NAS. This server is also powered by ZFS, only the pool is mirrored. So, physically the data is stored three times (desktop + 2 drives in server), which seems to provide a reasonable guarantee of data survival. Maybe sending it all once a year to Amazon's deep storage would also make sense...
Replication is done via `zfs send`, which incrementally sends changes made between snapshots --like a really smart rsync working at the block level. Today I spent a lot of time looking for a better wi-fi ac adapter that works on Linux, because it's still quite slow transferring data over the wlan.
I guess it would all be simpler with just a properly mirrored media center/NAS, but I find it too convenient for daily uses this way (eg., installing games directly from the local drives). What are your setups to store relatively big amounts of data at home?
@gramos I've been collecting old books before they deteriorate any further. I plan on scanning/uploading them and preserve them via distribution of digital copies. I'm talking =<1800s books.
@lucifargundam That's interesting! How do you plan to store/distribute them?
@gramos Using a python script to translate images to text, I'm going to take pics of the old pages and convert them to .txt files. From there I will be uploading them to a number of repositories like archive.org as well as seeding them out as torrents.