The storage apocalypse has arrived. An old friend drops by to talk survival strategies as prices explode, and we pitch our own unapologetically 90s approach to stretching storage.
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- BlueVault β A top-quality TUI app to manage Blu-ray cold storage archives on Linux.
- Pick: Kopia β Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
- Kopia Repository Server
- Pick: PowerISO β Create, Burn, Mount, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive
- PowerISO on Flathub
- Pick: CDEmu β CDemu is a software suite designed to emulate an optical drive and disc on the Linux operating system.
- Tellico β Collection management software, free and simple.