Sometimes it pays to talk about your hobbies at work. As most of you know I am a music junkie and while I don’t have the biggest collection out there it is on the heavier side clocking in around 165.1 GB; 32552 tracks playable over 102.6 days straight. The box that my collection resides on is a bit of a lumpy headed hydra with a 60 GB master flanked by 80 GB and 200 GB spares which makes it inelegant at best and often a pain in the ass to set up and administer proper backups. In steps my boss with a pair of 400 GB SATA drives and a controller card, “Make a mirrored set and sleep well at night”.

So here’s my plan to get my new massive storage set up and running:

1. Upgrade box from Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06.
2. Shut down and add controller card and drives.
3. Bring up box and cross fingers that all is recognized.
4. Add logical set to fstab.
5. Enjoy my new expanded storage!

If all goes well then I have the near insurmountable task of retagging and organizing my entire collection into something that is less like a roomful of socks that blew up and more like a well ordered library. A whole different beast that I’m not too keen on tackling. If anyone knows any bash scripts that can help automate moving files in to folders based on Artist/Album I’m all eyes and ears.

Tags: Computers, Linux, Server

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