Hello everyone, I’m in the process of setting up long term storage of a large amount of media files for my family. Since this is stuff that’s rarely accessed, I don’t need it to be always fully available, and I want to limit the actual transfer of files to a specific schedule.
Since knowing what’s already in storage is kinda non-trivial, are there any tools out there that allow me to browse which files are in cold storage, without the actual drives being attached / mounted? So only info like file location, name, metadata, perhaps icon, etc.
The transfer part I can manage to automate, as I can think of a few ways of allowing my users to “stage” pulling and pushing info from and to cold storage, and having the transfers be done on a fixed schedule like every two weeks or something.
Obviously self-hosted, open source stuff that’s not vibecoded is preferred.
Thanks in advance!
I’d probably write a bash script that recursively goes through the disk and creates any folders it sees on another path, and when it finds a file it creates a corresponding empty file with the same name. If you want more info you could script some metadata tools that extract the info and create a dummy media file with the same metadata.
rsync