From a314537cd1e1ae143b10257b01deadf930e60faf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "tcurdt@9d3ccb47a593bf70ac547ddae8fa634048b87ddf" Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 14:13:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- ...__63___Questions_about_the_long_term..mdwn | 20 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/Is_Annex_for_me__63___Questions_about_the_long_term..mdwn diff --git a/doc/forum/Is_Annex_for_me__63___Questions_about_the_long_term..mdwn b/doc/forum/Is_Annex_for_me__63___Questions_about_the_long_term..mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..76ff2f35c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Is_Annex_for_me__63___Questions_about_the_long_term..mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +I finally managed to dig a bit into annex, but I am still unsure if it's the right tool for me. It certainly feels close. +Maybe I'll describe what I am looking for: + +- on my laptop (and maybe a second machine) I want to have a repo with the metadata of all my files (files as in music, video, photos, books, documents, things that I want to keep - but not a backup of my work files) +- I want to have x number of external hard drives and a cloud account that form my storage +- I want to be able to say "these files go into the cloud", "these files just stay on local storage" +- I want to be able to say how many copies should exist (music=1, video=1, photos=2, ...) +- I want all files in storage to be encrypted, at least in the cloud +- I want to be able tot verify that my files are free (and stay free) of bit rot +- I want to be able to locate which files are on which disk so I can attach it if needed +- I want to be able to "materialize" files on my client machines as I need them, and drop the back to storage when I don't anymore +- I want to be able to recover my repo if my laptop gets stolen +- If the whole setup somehow breaks I would like to still be able to get access to the files on the drives +- If a storage drive dies I want to be able to add a new one that takes over (with little manual work) +- I don't want to think about disk sizes. If one drive is full - store it on the other drive. If all is full - let me know. +- I don't need these files to be versioned, in fact I don't want them to be versioned as they are mostly binary and will take up unnecessary space +- I want to use healthy project with more than one contributor (bus, virus, ... you never know) + +To me it seems annex checks most of the boxes - but on some I didn't manage to find out yet. +Any input on whether I could make annex work for me?