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       Stardate: 20220115.1208
       Location: xiled rumination concentrator
       Input Device: xrc console connected to pisendai virtual maschine
       Audio: silence of the concentrator occasionally interrupted by a 
              distant, muffled leaf blower.
       Visual: xrc cramped interior
       Emotional State: settling in.
       
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       SDF user, nm03, wrote about playing around with Raspberry Pis and 
       organizing data during his 4 day weekend [1] and in more recent 
       phosts.  I have been in that mode as well since the downtime during 
       the holidays.  nm03 updates his gopher hole [2] regularly and I enjoy 
       reading about his daily happenings over in Japan.  
       
       A few years ago, I centralized my data, as well as my family's data, 
       on a NAS using a Raspberry Pi 2 running openmediavault.  During that 
       time I just kept manually adding folders each year and adding the 
       files for that year, but not too much organization.  I also kept 
       adding USB storage and manually backing up as needed (which was 
       frankly less frequent than I should.)  This year, I am going to try 
       something different.  
       
       The Raspberry Pi 2 is still in good, working order, so I will still 
       be using that device, but only limiting the data of that device for 
       the current year.  Should the device happen to fail, not a big deal
       to rebuild.  The data wIll only contain family/personal data: 
       documents, audio, pictures, videos, and nextcloud backups. The server 
       will be backed up automagically to an external drive, which will 
       eventually reside on an archive server (TBD, older, repurposed x86 
       PC.)
       
       There will also be a separate Raspberry Pi 2 (yeah, I got a few of 
       those) that will be the repository for other files for that year, 
       like documentation, media files, ebooks, stuff found on the 
       Intarwebz, stuff that is basically replaceable and not personally 
       generated content.  This will also be automagically backed up as 
       well.
       
       I am hoping that I can get more order and manageability to the data 
       moving forward.  In the meantime, I have much data to sift and sort 
       through, not only from the previous years' NAS, but also the 
       external  drives that I have dumped to over the years pre-NAS.  
       Hopefully, the data is still accessible and can be migrated to 
       newer storage.
       
       My data and my family's data storage requirements are not 
       extravagant and is quite manageable if attended to regularly.  
       I guess I would consider myself to be the family's data archivist.  
       Nobody else is doing it.  Prior to me, I don't think we ever had 
       any kind of family archivist on either side, especially in the 
       digital sense.  Hopefully I am wrong since I would find it most 
       fascinating to learn more about my upstream, aside from random
       old pictures and spoken narratives from individual family members.  
       Moving forward, perhaps the care with this data is part of what I 
       can add to my own legacy for the familial downstream.
       
       [1] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/nm03/2022/JAN2022/entry_7
       [2] gopher://sdf.org/1/users/nm03/
       
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