How I Backup My Data

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Hi but in this case is not much expensive of energy?

What data do you have that takes up 40TB of storage?

What could be so important that you need copies at your friend's house?

How do you pay for your electricity bills?

Infiniband? It is fine and all, but isn't 10 Gigabit Ethernet almost as fast, and a lot cheaper?

really interesting, you do take backup seriously.
but I'm only interested on checking the script.
thanks 👌

Why not using FreeNAS?

I wish someone could make a really simple backup system that will perform incremental backups, but try to keep 2 snapshot versions, but allow additional if space permits.
My currently backup solution is more tedious and manual. I simply use an eSATA dock, and simply dock a few bare drives, and then copy and paste everything to it., then place it on the end of a shelf in a fire/ water resistant safe. Thus each time I go to do a manual update, I pick a drive on the left, and slowly cycle through the drives. Then when there are sale, I can add more drives to the safe. Outside of that, incremental backups go to my NAS.

Other than that, for the automated backups, I can't seem to find anything that can just backup based on a few simple rules of keep 2 versions of everything, but use more if there is free space (possibly prioritizing folders deemed important). This is especially the case since my NAS system also doubles as my NVR.

And I'm sitting here with my little passively cooled Celeron Server with a 3TB external USB 3 HDD as a network backup and server solution. BUT the server machine has two Gigabit LAN Ports so thats nice.
And it's quiet. That's nice too (was the main point when looking for a inexpensive server machine) 'cause I'm still a student and i got everything in the same room.
But it works for now and it's fun to tinker with. Got big plans for my IT infrastructure when I got more than a student job and a house (someday). My Girlfriend already is totally thrilled for that. Not a joke. She actually is.

I left ZFS for Windows Storage Spaces.

For offsite storage, I use an 8TB external USB 3.0 drive and GoodSync PC software. I run it once a month and turn off and disconnect the USB drive after the data is verified.

I know one one video you said you have an App Server. What do you run on that mostly?
Is it kinda like a VM Hypervisor like EXSi?

You like backups?

I back up my backed up backups.

About the backup server being always connected to power, you could make some sort of relay board that would disconnect the pc from power and ethernet, maybe a arduino/esp that would receive a network signal to connect/disconnect the pc to mains/network. Probably overcomplicated but leaving this here maybe someone is crazy enough to do it :)

Hi Mark, Keep up the great videos. Love watching these.
Could you do a video on your APP Server one day? Explain how you do your virtual machines and share data between them. I'm guessing you use NFS mounted in each VM or something.

All that to just have triple backup of your porn? Seriously, what kind of data are you storing actually?

Thats crazy I bought a 8tb wd Red for $160 a couple of weeks back

what... is.. an application server?

Living in a 1st country and have 10mb upload speeds. :P

Have you tried freenas?

RAID Z2 ~ RAID 6 and not RAID 10 :^)

I backup my best friends latest porn collection and distribute it on some of our offsite servers just incase... you know...

Im working on a nas project at home and these types of videos are helpful and of interest. You should make more about zfs/storage/backup/hardware/etc

Dude...what do you got there 🤔

sorry but out cireusity , What kind of data this

stop waving your hand about throughout the video, it is very distracting and annoying.

At least with this method, you're starting from somewhere and not from scratch if something catastrophic were to happen.

how about cloud storage?

How about tape drive for backup???

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"Zee" not "Zed".

NSA, is that you?

one of my rules for backups if that data should only ever be copied, never destroyed, in the event that something silly were to happen (for example me unplugging the primary server) the secondary server could then potentially try and copy data that doesn't exist, which is obviously bad.

I think it's just a good philosophy to never delete any data, unless you're ok with not having redundancy, or you push it onto the user, because that way you're more cognizant, and less likely to nuke something without realizing it.