Post #924104
2026-04-03 04:45 UTC
Should i devote the time to making a giant DwarFS archive of my "important" stuff, encrypt that, and upload it to some cheap cold storage? Glacier isn't the cheapest but my total AWS spend including like a quarter TB glacier + DNS + lightsail is ~$9/mo
I reckon if i don't back up third party videos, third party music - i might be able to fit everything on a single 4TB spindle with room to spare.
Gotta dedupe though, some of these folders have 1.6mm files in them. This'll take a week!
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@klaatu@noauthority.social 2026-04-03 06:44
@picofarad@noauthority.social CCleaner, the old windoze crap cleaner has a dedupe file feature hidden in its menus. That should help you out. I saved MS's old FCIV.exe which can create MD5 & SHA1 checksums of whole dirs to a file or validate those dirs/files against said checksum file. Easy to use for deduping from. In Linux you can run a recursive find running a checksum cmd to a file & sort it to find dupes. Same images in diff formats will need eyeballing though.