Not the top level directory, obviously.
For me, it would be my Camera directory. Worst case scenario would be to part ways with all the photos and videos I took for 15+ years, including the digital versions of a few hundred objects.
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Pictures. It’s every photo and video of my family, and backups of several other people’s photos.
duh ~ home
/mediastack. Has all my movies, shows, music, books, audiobooks etc.
Good shit
Simple: Pr0n
Music
Everything else is either easy to replace or it’s stuff I never access
Stuff
/Volume1 ;) guess my system
Proxmox, I presume?
Probably my back ups, I only have one source anyhow
On my server I would keep /NAS/Photos. Sure I’m loosing 45TB of everything else, but all my photos are stored in there. Some are irreplaceable, and sure they’re backed up, but I read the question as “you loose everything except the one folder”. So if I lost all my backups, Photos is the only one that would be devastating.
Losing 45TB sounds like a rough day. Glad to hear you have backups, bro.
Media
It’s where all my media lives - it’s then split into isos, other isos, cd rips and photos etc. The other top level directories are Downloads (torrents and nzbs), Document backup, and a folder for the library files for Plex, MusicBrainz and the Plex arr ecosystem. I can’t be doing with loads of top level folders.
/files
Well, it’s handy that the entire ZFS datastore is presented as a top-level directory. So yeah, that.
/mnt/Storinator/NASty/Archive