What storage software could I run to have an archive of my personal files (a couple TB of photos) that doesn’t require I keep a full local copy of all the data? I like the idea of a simple and focused tool like Syncthing, but they seem to be angling towards replication.
Is the simple choice to run some S3-like backend and use CLI or other client to append and browse files? I’d love something with fault tolerance that someone can gradually add disks to. If ceph were either less complicated or used less resources I’d want to do that.
Sounds like something like “git annex” is what you’re looking for?
I use this to manage all my photos. It lets you add binaries and synchronize then to a backend server (can be local, can be s3, back blaze, etc).
You can then “drop” files and it ensures a remote exists first. And when you drop the file your still see a symlink of it locally (it’s broken) so that you know it exists.
My workflow is to add my files, sync them to both a local server and b2, then I drop and fetch folders as i need (need disk space? “git annex drop 2022*”, want to edit some photos? “git annex get 2022_10_01”.