I have a makeshift media server I’ve been building for the past two years. The problem is I’ve been raw dogging my luck with just one hard drive. This has been a project where I’ve been learning various things from like media encoding and streaming to my household. Now I’m ready to up my game and take it serious. In doing so I need to setup a RAID so I got another hard drive to do just that. The problem is, I don’t want to delete all my data and restart from scratch. I’ve got a total of about 7.25tb of media. Instead of acquiring a third 10tb drive, I’d like to use cloud storage to temporarily store the files while I build the new setup. Does anyone have any suggestions? I’ve been looking at Mega because they seem the cheapest and figure I’d need it for about a month.
My initial thoughts is to create a BTRFS file system on new drive. Copy over data. Then wipe old drive and convert/balance the two drives now to BTRFS raid 1. No data loss :)
Wasabi. Backups is literally their use case