Storage

How does Jow Forums back up their files? My portable hard drives are starting to reach their capacity and I've been wondering whether I should invest in Cloud storage or build my own RAID server since I've already had two portable hard drives fail me in the past and want a more reliable option.

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4-bay NAS in RAID-1 with two external drives as an off-site backup.

>that kill switch

for what purpose

Magnetic tape if you can afford. The drives are expensive but still reasonable if you go for older generations. Might want to buy something lead-plated to store your tapes in, just in case of a massive solar flare.

>Giant solar flare
>Most electronics have been nuked
>At least my data is safe

just write stuff down in a large book

gonna need to share full details of that setup

Terry Davis I thought you were dead

>solar flare

I'll take things that won't happen for 500, Alex.

You mean things that DID happen? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859

>Roaming the post apocalyptic USA with 40TB of Anime, 20TB of porn and a exhentai siterip.

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Book of Eli but with the last copy of every anime instead of the bibble.

>Book of Eli
Oh yeah that movie exists. totally forgot about it.

I have a small nas at my parents house that I connect to over an ipsec tunnel that auto backs up important shit from my storage

Isn't it time you grew out of hoarding?

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started to build a small home server (debian based, Core2Duo, 4 GB RAM, zfs), but cannot find the time and motivation to finish the job ... so my data is spread over a few external drives, my PC in the livingroom, my PC at work and obviously on the server ...

Is that really necessary to ask?
>baka

>solar flare

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I don't have enough space right now for raid so I just use synctoy to mirror a folder with my most important stuff on 2 of my drives.

You are fighting against the inevitable.

I have a NAS at my parent's house along with a NAS at at my place.
There's a copy of my data and my parent's data on each one. My mom's kinda the family historian, so there's 100GB+ of pictures and data on all of our ancestors.
It's also not difficult to make backups of and give to each household of the extended family.

Not quite as unwieldy as a 10TB collection of furry hentai.

So NAS or RAID then? What are arguments to be made against Cloud drives? Back on Black Friday / Cyber Monday, I saw sales for WD Cloud drives and was tempted to get one but didn't.

The best solution is to get some hard drives and use FreeNAS to build a ZFS RAID array.
Super fault tolerant and scrubs the data to make sure there's no silent corruption. Plus you can access it over the network.

Got multiple FreeNAS boxes set up with ZFS2. Have 2 local here, merging everything to Yggdrasil then gonna turn vault into a second offset backup. I have another box setup at my folks house that has my most important files backed up on in case I have a fire or something at my house.

Got my builds in Rosewill 4U Rackmount Server Chassis with supermicro mobos and Xeons with ECC memory.

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Can someone tell me why 5 Ethernet cables go into each PC?

either link aggregation or retarded failover

>Got my builds in Rosewill 4U Rackmount Server Chassis with supermicro mobos and Xeons with ECC memory.
nice

I'm running virtually a similar setup, poorfag though so I have 2 dead drives in a Z2 array that have been like that for months

Gonna go with some sweet sweet LACP.

I have no data worth backing up

for backup something with snapraid would probably do the trick nicely

4u server in the basement

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hoping for a catastrophic failure to throw cold water on my eternal porn collection

I periodically manually copy files to a 2-disk mirrored RAID array.
>mfw the drives fail at the same time in the future

What SFF PCs are you using?

that pic is from hardforum
they are optiplex 790s or some shit

NAS is just networked storage
RAID is multiple disks
You can have a RAID NAS

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download freenas on a spare pc and start messing with it until you figure it out.

Unless you have deep as fuck pockets, make sure you stick with consumer level gear. No fancy server racks, enclosures, patch panels, managed switches.

Otherwise you'll end up paying ridiculous server prices like I did for rails.

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>The solar storm of 2012 was of similar magnitude, but it passed Earth's orbit without striking the planet, missing by 9 days.

damn

>for what purpose
it probably kills the fan, but that's just a guess.
it could be power because the fa/g/s here are the type of autists who would turn off network infrastructure at night because their mom says it's too loud.

Cute setup

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>so there's 100GB+ of pictures and data on all of our ancestors
It literally fits on a single bluray which doesn't care about solar flares

Eight disk RAID 0

never use cloud storage as your primary backup repo. if anything just use it for replication. even then I could never recommend consumer-tier services like gdrive/onedrive/dropbox etc unless you encrypt everything and keep the keys elsewhere.

run a local server with AT MINIMUM 2 drives in raid1. ideal hardware would be all drives in a sas expander or chassis connected to a sas hardware raid card on the pc. both can be found used on ebay for fair prices. if you still don't want to pay for the hardware you can connect the drives to the mobo directly and manage your array with zfs

install distro of choice and set up nfs/smb/whatever shares as desired. then back up to it with your software of choice. I use a combination of acronis true image, veeam, and rsync scripts between all my shit.

offsite replication is a good thing to have too. see notes on cloud storage above. usually you won't ever need to download data (unless you set it up to limit how much data is stored locally) so something like amazon glacier would be more than affordable

The only reason to host that much data in your bedroom is if you're in constant fear of getting v&.

i fucking love those tiny dells
what are you doing with them?

OP here. The pic isn't mine, just some random server pic I found on the web.

thats a big server

>4u server in the basement
But shit-tier network gear, hrrm.

I just have an old, cleaned up office pc (hp 6300 sff) with 2 4tb wd reds as storage, one that is shared and the other as a lazy mirror (task runs once a week to mirror the shared drive). also have 2 external drives, a 3tb and 4tb, as quick backups for laptops and other crap. I did the lazy mirror route so that both drives are accessible but one is nearly always spun down, and that mirror task keeps a backup of changes to the mirror (files deletes/renames/etc, are preserved for a couple months just in case I fucked up). though the lazy mirror way is set at weekly, I could change to nightly but I don't push crap to my shared drives that often and can trigger the mirror task when needed.

whatever nas is nicer on heat/power usage but not as customizable, though you may or may not really need that much control or possible compute power for your usage. mine has a dual core, 3rd gen core-pentium in it that is nearly always idle. a nas could replace it easy, but is more expensive

i used to hoard data once
then a drive and its backup failed and i realised that i didnt even use the data anyway so i dont even bother anymore

You do realize you're out of redundancy now?

Google Drive. You should check it out.

Standard 4u size, but it's the short norco case. It's about the same size as a regular mid tower and holds 9 3.5" drives.

I don't see the need for loud and power hungry as fuck server grade equipment. I deal with enough of that bullshit at work.

What is the point of installing a 48 port managed switch when I only have two vlans, and residential 150/15 internet?

My entire passively cooled network draws under 100w; so everything, with just a consumer level 1200va UPS (and after the NAS shuts off), stays online for 2 hours during a power outage to get anything I need done.