On 2016-11-19 00:05, Greg Freemyer wrote:
This email might be offtopic, not sure.
I have a minimum of 10 TB of data I want to consolidate off of multiple USB drives to free them up. The data is almost exclusively static and rarely accessed, but I need to maintain it.
... Personally I prefer a second set of hard disks to a raid (and rsync), unless high availability is a requirement. LVM allows growing the space. Personally I prefer separate directories, but that may not be to your liking. But if you use LVM and add hard disks, you increase the risk, so you need raid to compensate. There are data storage solutions out there. They spread the data over several different media according to the needed time of access. Some may be in fast hard disks, smallish, some on huge hard disks, some on tapes. Some need a human to switch modules. I know someone that is an expert on this (it is his job), perhaps he is reading. I'll ping him, just in case ;-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)