Consolidating

Consolidating Files, Drives, USB Sticks...

I have never been one to pass up a free USB stick handed out at business meetings as advertisement. And I have had numerous computers since the early 1980s made by many different manufacturers. Plus I have had various mobile phones, digital cameras, etc. Adding in my wife and children and as a family we probably have > 100K files scattered across multiple devices

I would like now to consolidate all those drives and devices down to a single drive with on-site and off-site backup. Rather than renting cloud storage, Pis with hard drives seems the best solution.

I will explain my strategy and tools ...