Its true all i have are cat pictures and grafana dashboards

Me after mailing tape backups to a vault in every country so my cat pics and ps2 iso’s can survive ww3

Edit: perfect nerd bait this site is all nerds

  • x87_floatingpoint [he/him, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    5 hours ago

    Was my experience, too, looked up cost of tape drive, can’t afford that. Not 2k, I have seen new ones for 1k, used ones for like 200, but I can’t afford any of that. Perhaps some day, I will get lucky and find a very cheap one with decent capacities. It would be awesome to have backups on magnetic tape…

    What do you use for backups?

      • x87_floatingpoint [he/him, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        4 hours ago

        Yeah, I also got a big HDD (4TB, though it seems like it’s slowly becoming not enough for all my backup stuff…), I do backups to it. Though the problem is that it’s an external one that isn’t always connected, so the backups must be done manually (connect HDD to computer and then run script), which means I end up not doing them even nearly as often as I should…
        Also, the HDD is physically close to all the other computers, so if something happens to this room, then everything is lost…

        I assume your big HDD is permanently connected to some computer and the copy happens over network? Do you trust the cloud storage enough to let them have your data?

        • Gorb [they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          5·
          4 hours ago

          Yeah big hdd sits in my desktop its a big cheap slow high capacity drive it serves as backup for home server and various desktop stuff and clones a bunch of things from my primary drives. Scripts set to run on logon. Nightly scripts running the server and store on the network drive

          No I don’t trust the cloud but I don’t store anything on it of value i suppose if someone wanted to steal my pointless collections of roms, iso’s, movies, anime, game saves, game screenshots then they can have them. Am looking to move off and host my own nextcloud thingy but too lazy rn. Also anything i consider important is encrypted then copied over but so far thats just my joplin notes which contain my trade secrets like all my linux notes and how i set this whole thing up and my family recipes

          • x87_floatingpoint [he/him, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
            3·
            4 hours ago

            Thanks for explaining rat-salute-2

            Good point, if it’s just backups of things like ISOs and ROMs and movies, then it doesn’t matter if the cloud provider reads it

            How do you plan to host a Nextcloud? I tried researching how to set up a web server, but it’s either self-hosting and putting up with only having a dynamic IP and whatever other restrictions your ISP got, or paying for some virtual machine on a server in some data center, so instead of trusting the cloud provider you now have to trust whoever you’re renting the server from… Which probably isn’t much better? Sorry, I don’t know much about internet stuff :(