Tried to search for ZFS and just hit a lot of different stuff. I’m a senior CS/programmer person, slowly(since quite some time) but steadily floating/flowing/jumping from ms and all their obligatory stuff to a more personal small world. ❤️. Linux & al.
In that smaller world (with FOSS, Lemmy and so on!) I’d love having some sort of hard drive security, where I can chuck in an old drive, or replace another, but, hear me out, change the motherboard controlling all that too.
Today home is a mix of Linux (ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, Dell) Windows (kids playing + the little box for the “windows only” stuff), Mac (Adobe 🥲), and an old old Synology NAS (3TB+2TB backup).
All mixed up on ethernet and WiFi.
I am not going to be able to change this infrastructure very much (cables everywhere already).
Can I set up something so, for example if my ThinkPad crams(drive or mobo or say I just lose the laptop) I can like get it back in working conditions buying another ThinkPad and like switching out a burned out harddrive in a RAID system?
I wonder because Linux seems to separate “your things” and the “os things” very well, but there are obviously lots of other things, can you safeguard those things too?