datahoarder
Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
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It's not hoarding. It's securing. Cloud services can't be trusted to be secure and available in the long term, some of them not even in the short term. They are capricious and arbitrary in their unilateral termination of service without notice.
Average punters can’t be trusted either.
Whenever I go to my family’s houses to check the NAS’s, they are often turned off (or not turned back on after a power outage, or having been unplugged).
I would love to roll out some integrated, but modular solution with RAID, UPS, remote synchronisation and reporting, that doesn’t require a 19” rack.
Unfortunately, the rest of my family barely comprehend the need for a reliable backup, let-alone data sovereignty.
What about a 10 inch rack? Jeff geerling has a few good videos on Nas solutions in a 10 inch rack