Data Management
September 6th, 2010 by jeff
One of my main interests is in figuring out the optimal way to manage all aspects of personal digital data. My end goal is to write a ‘best practices’ guide for users with varying degrees of technical knowledge, but for now this page will be a work-in-progress as I gradually fill-in the pieces.
A (mostly) exhaustive list of the data I’m considering:
- Home Photos
- Home Videos
- Ripped/Downloaded Movies
- Ripped/Downloaded Music
- Personal Documents (emails, tax returns, chatlogs, scanned receipts, bills, etc)
- Downloaded applications/games etc (E.g. through services like Steam)
Factors to consider for the above data:
- Primary storage (where it can be easily accessible by multiple users, both local and remote)
- Backup (both local and offsite)
- Ensuring data integrity
- Easily searchable
- Cross-platform accessibility
- Storing cloud data locally