Hi, i have plenty of data scattered all over multiple old hard drives, and i want to tidy up and backup them. i am going to buy new hard drives, that will be sitting in my pc, that will be my primary file system that i will be using, and i am going to make script, that will once a week clone all stuff (more like all new stuff) to my backup pc, using probably like smb or something. Now the important stuff: i want to use my old drives in the backup pc in something like raid0, but i would like it to split the files one by one and not shatter one file all over the drives (like unraid), because once one drive fails, it will be all scrap. is there a solution, that will just delete the files from the pool, once one of the drives fails, and once the backup script starts, just clone the missing data to another drives? I would like something free and the best would be probably some windows program, but i don’t mind if it is linux, if it has gui.
why not just use unraid its exactly what you are looking for, instead of data being striped your files are instead on a single drive in a jbod. caviet for unraid is that its performance for access times and transfer speeds are slower than all other OS solutions like trueNAS, windows storage space etc. due to how smb is implmented on it.
That or use stablebit drivepool if you want to use windows.
Mergerfs or some other union file system is what you want.
https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs
But it’s linux only and no gui.