(2014-01-19, 17:17)leepenny Wrote: I must say - sick set up but do you really have 512 tb of data with no redundancy ?
How many drives do you lose per annum...........
I worry about my 45 tb set up (using unraid) and the costs of failing hard drives.....
(not happened yet) but man I would hate the complications of all that data and keeping on top of it - is it your full time job..............
What complications? There is a MYSQL database that indexs the entire library. If I loose a partition, or a whole drive a simple SQL query will tell me what I am missing. For example, if I loose a partition; let say Media Server #1, Multi-Media Drive #9;
SELECT c22 from movie where c22 like '%Media Server #1 Multi-Media Drive #9%' order by ASC
Will tell me Exactly what I am missing. Since I keep more than one copy of most media, I can either remove these entries from the library, or rebuild it...all the while, the rest of the system keeps on working...
(2014-01-19, 17:45)MilhouseVH Wrote: 512TB of storage, split across 128 disks (with no redundancy, why?!). Each 4TB disk is further split into 1TB partitions (why?!!) so that's 1024 partitions in all. Each partition is a separate media source (WHY?!!!)
To quote: "the sources.xml file is rather large".
Lol, I should imagine that's the understatement of this year!
(2014-01-19, 16:59)jacintech.fire Wrote: I dare you to think...
Perhaps if you'd heeded your own advice you wouldn't have created this monstrosity, which has got to be the most botched solution imaginable. No wonder you're trying to find a software solution to get you out of this mess. Good luck with that... doing it right in the first place would have been so much easier, but then you're a child genius so what do we know, eh?
It is easier than you think: Once a drive or partition is full (or reaches a predetermined point) is locked out and I don't even have to think about it:
There is a utility that tells me the storage level of each drive, so when is time to add new media, already know where is going.
and using the JASON API I can trigger a per directory library update...
That same utility does a full library update every week just in case...
I even get a message when my favoirite shows are available and ready...
The whole thing is so easy, my eight year old daughter does most of the media admin stuff...