The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SimKaiLong on 2025-06-03 01:40:00.

Hi guys, have recently setup a PC running Proxmox and spun up LXCs to host some media services like the Arr stack, Jellyfin, Nextcloud etc. Also using it to run a VMs for TrueNAS, Immich and a Debian host.

I've currently got a data pool for 4x12TB disks and am looking to create a backup copy that is not within the same machine/server.

I'm aware of the 3-2-1 strategy but would like to keep costs low for now as I've just started out. I have 2 extra 12TB drives on hand and plan to have 1 as a cold spare and 1 as a backup for my critical data like family media, which is currently at 1.5TB.

Looking to get an enclosure for one of the 12TB drives so I can plug it in occasionally to do a backup. Preferably one that has a fan to keep the drive cool?

Other suggestions are welcomed too.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/clickbatedubs on 2025-06-03 01:34:21.

I'm trying to figure out how to completely mirror a version of a site from the Wayback Machine. Basically I want to download the full thing sorta like HTTrack or ArchiveBox does, but using the archived Wayback Machine version instead.

I’ve tried wayback-downloader and the Strawberry fork, but neither really worked well for anything large. Best I’ve gotten is a few scattered pages, and a ton of broken links or missing assets that function fine on the actual waybackmachine.

Anyone know a good way to actually pull a full, working snapshot of a site from Wayback? Preferably something that works decently with big sites too.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Yusei0 on 2025-06-03 00:58:47.

i am mainly looking into downloading the pokemon anime episodes from youtube but i cant figure out how todo it with the german audio track instend of the english one. i keep finding about using youtube dlp but i just cant figure out how to use it for this task, maybe someone can help me. idealy it would be great to have something with a GUI. i got open video downloader installed but i dont think it can download different audiotracks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Cultural-Victory3442 on 2025-06-02 17:34:07.

I've been considering setting up a RAID-0 to make it easier to access my files without losing storage or having to swap disks, but I've seen mixed opinions about the safety of this setup. Given that a single drive failure could lead to total data loss, is it possible to keep it safe by regularly checking the SMART health of the drives? Like, checking every month or so.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SquashTemporary802 on 2025-06-02 15:34:30.

I’ve got backup anxiety... and I don’t even hoard that much data 💀

Been reading threads like this one and realizing how many of us don’t actually test our backups unless we’ve already lost data once.

How are you validating restores? Do you just run SMART? Checksum scan?

What gives you actual peace of mind, not just “green checkmark = success”?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/StopYoureKillingMe on 2025-06-02 15:22:19.

Yes, I've read the wiki, and googled, and even seen the big post on this very subject. The issue? The things written about this subject are impenetrable if you don't have a background in the subject at all. My only background is in doing this kind of archiving with audio, not video. I know I can take these to a service but I can't afford the 400+ bucks that it will cost from the various estimates I've gotten. I'm already going to be spending a fortune getting 8mm reels digitized and can't add these video8s to that bill.

My idiot's understanding is that I should be able to get a capture card that can run right from a camera that can shoot on digital8 and playback in analog into my computer. I see firewire mentioned a lot. Issue is I don't have anything with a firewire port and basically every post has people saying X thing is good enough and then someone else says no it isn't. I can most likely find a camera on ebay or a thrift store, and have a computer that can do whatever the computer side needs to do. I have adobe premiere just to have it, so if there needs to be some capturing software I've got that too.

I really just need the lowest budget items that I can use to get these videos digitized well enough to show family members, and a total ELI5 explanation for how to go about doing that. It doesn't need to be lossless and perfect. The tapes themselves probably kinda look like shit anyway. I don't need anything that will last beyond these 16 video8s and a single VHS, and I already have an old VHS player that works for that one.

Any help is greatly appreciated. EDIT: I have the camera used in playback from 20ish years ago, a Sony DCR-TRV320 that has a DV firewire output. I assume a battery for this + a converter for Firewire or a firewire card should be all I need?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Cuck_lover55 on 2025-06-02 23:49:37.

Hey, So recently one of my favourite YouTube channels which made text to speech audiobooks for a whole bunch of light novels got banned. I enjoyed all there videos as the voice they used was good and stable when sped up. Anyway I’m trying to find a way to download an entire playlist from the way back machine and save them straight as MP3’s or I can convert them myself.

Preferably I’d like to avoid having to do them one by one as there is like over like 1000 videos, any help would be really appreciated with the downloading and converting.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Prestigious_Display2 on 2025-06-02 22:20:17.

There was a youtube channel that uploaded audiobooks with a text-to speech voice that had a much nicer voice than you can usually find for free elsewhere, but it got removed on the grounds of copyright literally while i was in the middle of listening to it. I had been meaning to go through and download them with one of them youtube to mp3 sites expecting it to happen at some point but I guess I was too late. I was really engrossed in the series and am desperate to find a way to listen to it again, as it made my boring job much, much more tolerable having a long book series to listen to. I was able to grab the link to the last video I was listening to here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsbzWKRLxL8, the one before that, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKNPINIEdr4&ab_channel=TheAudiobookArchive

and the link to the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAudiobooksArchive/videos

the series in question I was listening to was Ascendance of a Bookworm so I especially want to get those back and I had been looking forward to listening to Legend of the Galactic heroes, which they also uploaded onto there.

I tried the using the wayback machine but that didn't work.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Mr-Joker272 on 2025-06-02 22:17:01.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Sharp_Law_ on 2025-06-02 22:11:22.

Hello, a YouTuber I watched recently just got demonitized. They are considering switching channels after YouTube said they could not do that but at the same time he does not want too. They recently just hit 8.59 million subs and I’d like to backup his videos because he’s been on so many other channels before. I would like to download ALL of his videos as a backup.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Dangerous-Safety4514 on 2025-06-02 22:05:39.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DarkLight72 on 2025-06-02 22:05:10.

I'm upgrading the drives in my NAS and have been looking for deals on Factory Recertified drives. Going from 4x 6TB to "something bigger at a decent price", and was keeping an eye on SPD.

Goharddrive has IronWolf Pro 16TB for $199 (3-year warranty) - $12.44/TB.

Seagate IronWolf Pro ST16000NE000 16TB NAS Hard Drive 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal NAS Hard Drive (Certified Refurbished) - 3 Years Warranty

Not a shill, just finally saw a better deal than I've seen in a while and grabbed 4 and figured I'd share.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/iosu on 2025-06-02 20:26:17.

Does anybody know why youtube downloaders seem to have suddenly stopped working? things like Savethevideo.com, Keepvid, Yt1z and the like all seem to be failing to download.

Any suggestions? Firefox used to have a plug in called unplug which made it super easy, those were the days

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/rtb001 on 2025-06-02 18:59:09.

I recently bought yet another Exos 14 TB drive and this one is slated to backup some TV shows. Unlike the ones I bought earlier, this is one of those 2X14 dual actuator drives, in SATA.

Is it true that I can get more performance if I partition it into halves so each half is controlled by one of the actuators? When I initialized it in Windows with a quick format it just shows up as one single 14 TB volume. Do I simply partition it into two equal sized partitions in Disk Managment, or is it more complicated than that?

I've also read the increased performance would only be if it is put into two partitions and then under Raid 0, which I don't want to do. If simply partitioning it into two in disk management will give some other performance or reliability benefits without raid0/striping, then I would certainly do that, especially since this drive will hold two genres of shows (drama and scifi) which are sort of equal in size so would neatly go into two partitions.

Or should I just use it as a single 14TB volume if partitioning it give no real benefits unless I use it in Raid-0?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Spektre99 on 2025-06-02 18:00:34.

I've read that a single URE on a disk will cause a RAID 5 array to not be able to rebuild causing the loss of all data.

1. Is that true generally? IT seems you should only need lose the file/stripe in which the URE occured.
2. Is it true for a Windows Disk Management made parity array?
3. Is it true for a Storage Spaces parity virtual drive?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jackzzae on 2025-06-02 16:13:20.

hey everyone! you might remember me from my last post on this subreddit, as you know, skrycord now archives any type of message from servers it scrapes. and, i’ve heard a lot of concerns about privacy, so, i’m doing a poll.

1. Keep Skrycord as is.
2. Change skrycord into a more educational thing, archiving (mostly) only educational stuff, similar to other stuff like this. You choose! Poll ends on June 9, 2025.

• https://skrycord.web1337.net/ admin

View Poll

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/EvilMonkeySlayer on 2025-06-02 15:54:17.

I'm looking at building a new fileserver using a nuc but with a usb storage option. I'm currently looking at the "TERRAMASTER D4-320" as my main option. (likely to be filled with four 22TB Toshiba drives)

Has anyone found it unreliable? Slow storage transfer speeds in certain scenarios etc? I've heard of other bays similar to this having atrociously bad transfer speeds.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Gyrazal618 on 2025-06-02 11:35:21.

Any good recommendations? Brands, models. Anything.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BSamG on 2025-06-02 11:14:21.

I have a seagate 2tb hdd that ive used for about a little over 2 years now. I really would like to keep using it but its growing unstable (randomly removing my access to it, disappearing, etc.) i have about a little under 500gb of files on it that are part of important personal projects and such. I have several other storage devices and my own computer. I can optionally also save it to a sata ssd that is being unused from my old linux NAS i was working on, but that requires booting it back up and a bunch of other work. Any suggestions?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Danacy on 2025-06-02 07:45:57.

The Exos enterprise model is so much cheaper but louder and less energy efficient. Could it be firmware. Flashed into a different type of disk with different behavior? Warrant gone sure, but would it be possible?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Substantial_Mistake on 2025-06-02 07:18:49.

I am looking to expand my storage and was considered two options.

Either I rebuild my entire PC to get a new motherboard (which in turn needs all other components replaced) that supports more internal drives.

Or I buy an external enclosure (I’ve seen this one recommended on here: https://a.co/d/g5A0fQl) to attach to an old Dell Optiplex and create a NAS of some sort.

What would you recommendation be? Please let me know I need to supply any additional details

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Umeko-369 on 2025-06-02 06:20:42.

forked chain :: overlay: fade_none

loop_001A active

cmd> ghost_init()

Was in an old .tar backup from 2019. Trying to reverse-engineer it.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Present_Blueberry578 on 2025-06-02 03:22:17.

Hi - I have an external WD drive that I use to store disk images of my OS and data drives (using Macrium Reflect). I have these images scheduled and everything is working fine. Of course I need to unlock the drive using the WD Drive Unlock GUI interface before the clone schedule kicks off.

However, I was wondering if it's possible to schedule an event to unlock the drive, then run my backup, then re-lock the drive automatically an hour or two later without my intervention. I'd like to protect my back-up drive from ransomware. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Careless_Ferret_3299 on 2025-06-01 23:19:04.

Hi all, I have one of these enclosures: yes I know they are probably frowned upon in here, but I only have it so I can back up my stuff to a 6TB HDD.

Just a quick Q: the fan on the bloody thing is stupid loud, has anyone modded one to get a better fan working in it? I did change the stock fan in it for one of these :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07D74LXBW

as these 2 wouldnt fit in the F'ing thing.....

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009NQMESS

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008S1HNPS

But alas its still well loud....

I know its a silly Q, but I really do not want to be spending any money on a DAS/NAS as quite frankly I hate the noise 3.5" drives and fans on NAS/DAS's bring, as this is all going to be on my desk, I would like to swerve that noise, literally.

Any suggestions I dont mind getting mucky and jerry rigging this thing...."if it dies i dies" I still have a dock I could use as and when I need to backup.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/saiba_444 on 2025-06-01 22:54:25.

I'm curious about what naming systems, metadata, and folder organization folks use for TV shows and movies.

I'm a newbie so I'm still working on mine. For TV shows, I'm currently using the subtitle metadata for the episode number, and tags for the season. I then group by tags and sort by subtitle. I put shows in their own folders, all grouped into one TV show folder in Videos. I don't own too much physical media yet, so I haven't been able to add much to my database. I don't have a philosophy for movies yet. ;;