I currently have 5x 8TB drives (3 of which are nearly full, using ordered file placement plugin) and I'm hoping to back up the data on them and be able to keep backing up data moving forward.
I have bought 3x Seagate Backup Plus Hub 8TB. My plan was to use a USB3.0 hub to connect all of them up, have them assigned to a pool. Then use ordered file placement plugin to manage that pool. Then i'd use something like robocopy or some other utility to start the backup.
The data i'm backing up is movies and tv shows and music. Sometimes the files get replaced with higher quality versions (same file name) and sometimes just the metadata changes (like fixing mp3 tags). I'd like to make sure these changes are synchronized weekly, and have the ability to connect additional drives as time goes on.
Am i doing the right thing? are there any caveats I should be aware of? Or is it pretty much exactly as i describe? I honestly dont even need to use ordered file placement, I just figured it would make the transfer faster/easier on the OS if it was only reading/writing to 1 drive on the hub at a time.
I have a secondary question about leaving all those drives plugged in/powered on. Is that safe? How can I ensure the drives will park and be suspended if there is no disk activity required of them?
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I currently have 5x 8TB drives (3 of which are nearly full, using ordered file placement plugin) and I'm hoping to back up the data on them and be able to keep backing up data moving forward.
I have bought 3x Seagate Backup Plus Hub 8TB. My plan was to use a USB3.0 hub to connect all of them up, have them assigned to a pool. Then use ordered file placement plugin to manage that pool. Then i'd use something like robocopy or some other utility to start the backup.
The data i'm backing up is movies and tv shows and music. Sometimes the files get replaced with higher quality versions (same file name) and sometimes just the metadata changes (like fixing mp3 tags). I'd like to make sure these changes are synchronized weekly, and have the ability to connect additional drives as time goes on.
Am i doing the right thing? are there any caveats I should be aware of? Or is it pretty much exactly as i describe? I honestly dont even need to use ordered file placement, I just figured it would make the transfer faster/easier on the OS if it was only reading/writing to 1 drive on the hub at a time.
I have a secondary question about leaving all those drives plugged in/powered on. Is that safe? How can I ensure the drives will park and be suspended if there is no disk activity required of them?
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