🪣 The Great Jelly Bean Rescue

The exFAT Repair Analogy

Imagine your data consists of thousands of gourmet jelly beans. You currently have two giant jars (MrRobot1 and MrRobot2). Right now, the jelly beans in MrRobot2 are sitting in a flawed, fragile cardboard container format (exFAT), and the container is starting to rip. You need to move them into a sturdy plastic container format (NTFS) without losing a single bean.

Here is how your 8-step rescue procedure looks:

• Step 1: Steal two buckets from the garage
  You march over to a smaller, rarely used shelving unit in the house (the ASUSTOR NAS). You pull out two sturdy, industrial-grade surveillance buckets (the 2TB MDD drives) that were being used for a minor project.
• Step 2: Clean out the first rescue bucket
  The first MDD bucket has some dividers inside it. You tear out all the internal dividers (collapse all partitions) so it becomes one single, wide-open 2TB space, and you line it with sturdy plastic (format it to NTFS).
• Step 3: Pour the beans into the rescue bucket
  You hook up a high-speed, motorized funnel (the iDsonix USB 3.0 Docking Station). You safely scoop and duplicate every single jelly bean—over a thousand pounds of them (1TB+ of data)—from the ripped cardboard jar (exFAT WD drive) into your newly prepared, sturdy rescue bucket (NTFS MDD drive).
• Step 4: Rebuild the original jar
  Now that your jelly beans are safely sitting in the temporary rescue bucket, you take the old, empty WD network jar and completely line it with the same sturdy plastic (reformat the WD network drive to NTFS).
• Step 5: Pour the beans back home
  Using your high-speed funnel again, you pour all 1,000+ pounds of jelly beans out of the temporary rescue bucket and right back into the newly reinforced original jar (the NTFS WD drive).
• Step 6: Update the pantry security rules
  Because you changed the jars, the pantry doors are locked. You go to the main kitchen and the back door (host and remote computers), delete the old sticky note with the guest passcode, and write a fresh, clean access note (recreate the GuestUser account and password) so people can eat the jelly beans again.
• Step 7: Sticker shock at the bucket store
  You realize you need a third bucket to keep at your son’s house as an emergency backup. You go to the hardware store, but because of a massive plastic shortage, the price of a 2TB bucket rocketed from $69 to $169 overnight! You hunt around to find a fair deal.
• Step 8: Fill the offsite safety bucket
  Once you secure that backup bucket, you hook up the high-speed funnel one last time. You duplicate all 1,000+ pounds of jelly beans from the reinforced main jar (NTFS WD drive) into this safety bucket so it can be driven over to your son's house.