Probably not useful for anyone, but if you are installing Ubuntu I have a repo with scripts for installing Atom, basic Audio utilities, basic Graphics utilities, Google Chrome, Docker, Epson and Samsung printer drivers, Flash, Java, a LAMP server, Node, DVD and CD-ROM utilities, Spotify, Themes, and other stuff. The scripts are individual, not a one script to rule them all sort of thing.

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All right, so I realize I do this every couple of years, but I'm looking at my backup system again. I've finally gotten to the point where I have stuff I'm ready to archive.

So, Drew, when you store your long term storage hard drives, how do you do it? Just pull the drives from the enclosure and stick them somewhere?

I think what I'm going to have going forward is:

-Laptop w/ 512g SSD -LaCie w/ 2T HD: working pro tools drive (this could be a 512 SSD if I were willing to pay more for less storage) -other external SSD: plugin & samples drive -Drobo 20T (10 usable) pseudo RAID: Time Machine, Plex media server, medium term storage (work files) -Other enclosure yet tbd, probably repurposed Synology? 4T each long term storage, copy to each of two drives, eventually remove and store as drives fill.

So I'd work the sessions from the LaCie, they'd automatically backup to the Drobo. Then I'd make two copies to the Synology when I was ready to archive the pro tools files.

Does that all seem workable?

I don't even pull drives from enclosures at this point. Smaller data files (Non audio and video stuff) is backed up locally to a time machine backup on each of my machines as well as being backed up to iCloud.

A/V files for projects are backed up short term to a local Time Machine drive in the studio, and then when projects are completed they are backed up to a network Drobo. As I need more space I swap larger drives into the Drobo.

Media files like the iTunes library and a few other things are stored on a local Drobo connected to the iMac on my desk in the office and then I also pay for iTunes Match so that they are backed up in the cloud.

So, but when you swap out the smaller drives from the network Drobo, are you retaining those? Or you've just got enough capacity in the network Drobo that you just expand the volumes and then leave everything on there?

Incidentally, the Synology is well and truly dead, it seems, and the old old Buffalo Terastation did not survive the move. Neither did my Roland monitors, but that's another story.

So I guess I'd buy another Drobo for the long term storage, maybe?

I have a 5 drive Drobo that currently has a totally of 9 TB of storage and I'm running two drive redundancy so I can have complete failure of a drive and when it's replace all my data is restored. I think my last drive was a 6 TB mechanism, so when I do the next replacement I'll gain at least a couple of terabytes of space.

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks for the help again!

Question! I have an iPhone 5S that is starting to crap out. I like the size and the phone in general, and I am cheap. Should I just get an iPhone SE and call it a day?

Yes, go for it.

That's what I did in the same situation and it's worked out well for me.

Sweet, thank you for the confirmation!