I was the Senior Team Lead/PTA for a Fortune-10 IT Tier 3. Retired, I was running my hand built FreeNAS system behind a hand built pfSense for a few years at my mountain home on late technology hardware. As I moved to being off-grid with my power, I found my daily power load could be significantly reduced by running a NetGate fanless appliance and a Synology NAS. I've noticed no real downside to running these boxed systems and I'm less than 14% of the previous PC/server based power usage. But you can always learn new things. There are some good ideas here, I'll look deeper... I have time, quarantine or not. Thanks, Wendell. (PS, I've been following since you were just the back of a head)
One important thing most people don't do is actually verifying their backups are in good order and can actually restore from backup. I have several VMs dedicated just for verifying the restoration process.
And the nice thing about rsync is that it doesn’t have any special format--the backup is just a bunch of copies of your files, nothing more. This is important for restoration, because that will often have to be undertaken at a time of high stress, perhaps with the data owner (boss, customer or family member) breathing down your neck. In that situation, it helps that the restoration can be done with the same file-manipulation commands you use every day.
I can't stress this enough for backups: The main point of failure is between the chair and the keyboard. The chances of even a single hard drive failing is much lower than the chance of you messing things up. So the main consideration with any backup strategy should be how do I make it harder for myself to accidentally delete my data.
I have had hard drives fail a couple of dozen times in my career so far. Personal stuffups that caused me to lose data have been much rarer. Backups for one reason help to protect against the other, as well.
Funny, Ive not had a single drive of any kind fail in maybe 7-9 years. The closest thing is crappy sandisk USB sticks taking themslves offline in firmware.
I started using RSync between my two Synology boxes in case one died so I could make the data live much faster than doing a full recovery. In my situation it works well. Yes, I still have real backups that get tested by my users regularly.
I'm running Synology's RS3618xs 6 x WD Red Pro 8TB Raid6 + 2 x Samsung 840 EVO 1TB Raid1 R/W cache + 1TB Samsung single SSD for experimenting with Synology's hypervisor. And an ancient, but still running/working, backup Synology DS211+ with 2x6 WD Red's in RAID1, which holds important stuff from main server.
@Buffy Foster If your data has any value, uploading it to any cloud is a terrible idea. Encrypted, or not. Trust you can put in the providers today is unacceptably low. It's basically become a risk management thing today, where you have to know what you're dealing with. Most people/businesses who go into cloud, have no clue.
@@sirius4k I have the opposite view, if your data has any value (sentimental or otherwise) then make as many copies of it as possible, if you really care about your data and you don't have/afford any better options then I would rather Google or whoever have a copy of it rather me losing it forever.
NAS at a friend's house (or for business, another premise they own, or the owners house for small single site business). At my work, we have 2 shops. The backups go to a Synology NAS sitting in the shop that doesn't house the server. For my home, the server is in the house, and the NAS is in the back shed about 20m away from the house. In both cases, there is still a risk that we lose everything at once due to a 747 crashing on the town, or a massive flood taking them all out... But at that stage, we're probably dead anyway.
@Marlinchen Because they'll sell your data to the highest bidder in the same way Facebook does. Especially Google! Gmail and Facebook aren't free out of the good of their hearts. It is just bait to reel in the real product: your data. Which they sell on to make a profit. Like a fisherman buys bait, which the fish eat for free, he catches the fish and sells them to make a profit. This is the same reason why never to trust a free VPN like in Opera. Windows is not to be trusted either. Only open source with an active community can be trusted and even then who knows what malicious code is in the firmware of that cheap SSD you may be using.
How I manage backups: 1. raspberry pi turns automatically on. 2. I compress my home directory (with exceptions for directories like .steam). 3. I send it over ssh to my raspberry pi. 4. raspberry pi saves it on a disk with the name "main-weekly-TIMESTAMP.tar.gz". 5. raspberry pi manages the already saved backups to not have an excess amount. 6. raspberry pi turns off.
I have yet to find an off-site backup solution that has about 5TB of storage that I could also access as a cloud storage. and that doesn't rip me 70 USD a month :p I actually use rsync+ssh a lot for backing up but had no idea I could also restrict access. That is really interesting!
OK, ok. We get it, you're so much wiser than us. Now just bloody well tell us what we clicked to learn. It may come as a surprise but we don't all have nothing else to do!
The key is having a google drive business account with multiple paying users, so each user has the "unlimited" googledrive storage, then mount it as an encrypted volume using rclone. Just don't use it as your only backup storage. This also works incredibly well for media storage(for a seedboy maybe?).
I share same concerns regarding backing up to any cloud service.. which is why I have 2 synology and one custom built freenas. 1synology for primary nas/storage (40tb) and other 2 for backups (60tb).
I'd suggest you to have a look at Syncthing for automatic, selective, decentralized backups. I've been using it probably for a few years, it just works, and it's very secure by default. Set it up, forget it, you're done.
Syncthing is a little finicky for backup, I'm not saying you cant use it but its a little complex as far as making sure you dont do anything stupid to loose data
I was actually suprised that Duplicity was not mentioned. It is a superb unix tool that encrypts your backup and uses rsync to sync your backup to cloud storage of your choosing. Supporting many platforms making it very flexible. The only thing that it does not support is fully automated key rotation. Edit: When regarding those keys to recover your encrypted data, Paperkey is a good example of a medium (3-2-1) when you got the freedom of managing your own encryption key. p.s. well..... you can lock a user down... but that would be jailing... or is that not the same thing? I mean you can pick and choose the programs that specific user is able to run?
I just have my 3TB NAS synced up to a folder on a 4TB HDD in my Desktop with GoodSync. This folder is also being synced to BackBlaze and encrypted using my own key. 3TB is more than enough for me.
I dont have anything *really* important to back up but I finally decided to pull the trigger on Raspberry Pi 4B purchase to make a home video server. If nothing else, I just want to watch random Star-Trek episodes on any of my devices without a need to copy files around.
Just saw new privacy policy today (Thursday, 14 May, 2020) which need to be acknowledged if i want to even open package manager which says a lot about data collection and 3rd party processing and all that BS... I have not acknowledged it, cancel it but now I can't use package manager. They have not given any option to opt out so I won't be able to run, stop, update anything about the packages...even older package until I permit them to use whatever they do under the name of data collection and data processing.
I back up my Synology NAS to a pair of USB hard drives. One goes in my desk at the office, and the other remains hooked to the Synology NAS. I swap them out back and forth every so often. I'd like to swap them more frequently, but COVID has made that difficult since I'm working from home. Before I got the Synology NAS, I had attempted to create a NAS with a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and some USB hard drives. It did not go well because the Pi could not handle RAID duties reliably. But I might try something a little different: configuring the Pi as an offsite backup server at, say, my parents' house. It doesn't have to do RAID duties there, but the regular backups will make swapping hard drives between my home and my office obsolete. I just need to buckle down and figure it out.
I have a Buffalo NAS, and I use it for video storage, but I'm torn between a storage upgrade (I have 2TB in raid, which is half full) and getting a proper Synology NAS (since virtually every single NAS guide uses Synology). I haven't see many high-level tips that I can use for this older Buffalo NAS, but I'm sure they exsist.
ftp is made to transfer files, rsync is made to duplicate a filesystem, the difference is that rsync is able to determine what needs to be transfered and transfer only what it needs to. It can also preserve things like permissions, symbolic links, etc which goes beyond transfering a file
Can synology work as a small business server? Or is it really made to only backup stuff? I'd like to do a fiber optic server for several computers to access the same folders.
How do you find it? I've heard a lot of stories about it being excruciatingly slow. I have worked with it a bit as I work with zfs based storage servers as well as Ceph object based storage clusters and some customers have wanted ways to upload to the cloud and it seemed first to be a great tool especially since it's compatible with so many different providers... But I've found when working with specific vendors like Amazon S3 or azure blob - it's much more efficient to use their tools... I've been using azcopy to export cephs RBD (block device images) and it's fantastic because it allows you to pipe the command so you can export directly to azure without having to store the sometimes massive RBDs in a secondary location while exporting
@@mitcHELLOworld I can only speak for windows and linux file transfers and google drive and mega transfers and so far its really quick. sounds like you need to do some experimenting with how many --transfers=x you can get away with the size of data your using. you will hit a point where it doesn't move any faster and it takes more time to check things. and i wouldn't do any more then 25... rclone dose has some caveats like it is quicker to download from google and then upload to mega not just go from google to mega. yes its caching google cant send to mega but the caching is slow for that... if you have the google drives set up right google drive to google drive with "--drive-server-side-across-configs" is nuts like GB/s nuts... my good goto command for non google stuff would be "rclone copy "Sorce:file" "Dest:file" --fast-list --transfers=10 -P" but the only thing in my current setup is I/O through put. soo it takes me the same time to move 10 10GB files then 1000 1mb files.. lots of small files kills it. but yeah once you get over the setup, commands and build your self a cheat txt doc of commands its a real nice tool. has its draw backs like all tools but it dose the things it dose well..
At certain point of the video I received a desktop email notification and I thought it was Wendell censoring his swearing, only bizarro Wendell (level2techs Wendell) swears on video.
"Ha Haa" - it only took you 2.5 years to impliment 321 backup (incl. offsite) for Level1Tech's :) " _Data Recovery PTSD: Prep for 45 Drives Offsite Backup_ " - Aug 26 2022
Only the software really. It's like whatever you like white or milk chocolate. I prefer Synology personally, but just because their product was slightly cheaper for us to buy many years ago when we started suggesting NASes for business backups.
Get two 12tb or higher density drives. move data to one drive, clone the drive. Store the clone at your parents/ friends. Get to university, they have fiber or at least 100megs upload. Dont dont do stupid shit though. Repurpose old pc hardware with old drives to build a nas to play around with
I feel your pain... My work backups happen over a wifi link to another building... It's 70mbps on a good day, but will drop to 30-40 at times. Our full backups (once a month generally) can take up to 2 days depending on various conditions.
Not trying to be mean at all - great content - but why is the audio so bad? Got a fair bit of the compressed cellphone call or voip call garble sound going on.
Your videos are awesome content-wise, but you should really sort out the sound. Your voice sounds like it's compressed a lot. Sound really goes a long way for the general quality of a video.
@@plapbandit you are confusing replication with backup. Rsync is for replication. In any case, the only advantage Rsync has its cross-platform and cross-filesystem.
rsync is good for backups, too. Its “--link-dest” option is handy for making incremental backups that look, for restore purposes, exactly like full backups. This makes it much easier to do a restore, versus the conventional rigmarole of going back to the last full backup, then doing a bunch of incremental restores on top of that.
Wendell I love your videos, but the mic in the past two sounds like it was recorded on a laptop. Something, anything would be better. Please, it takes so much from the video
If you ever consider backing up your data on public cloud infrastructure...encrypt them properly before uploading If its encrypted NO ONE can read it except the one with the key Yes, they will store it, yes for the rest of YOUR AND THEIR lives...but your data stayes safe, because 4.5 million years to crack something, is veeeeeeery long time
They're exactly the same as the multi bay ones (of the same model range), except obviously no option for RAID. Just remember you're only using one disk. I personally prefer to use RAID1 minimum even for backups, so that I don't find out the backup drive has died right when I need to restore a backup.
I have an edge router and I dont even know what ssh stands for. All I know is that it's a remote access thing. GUI is better because too many command prompts don't accept copy paste and the | symbol sucks
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 oh i see what you're trying to say. You just havr to type less in a gui, and you don't need to learn all the commands. Want to change a value in a gui you just type the value. Try typing the value in the command prompt
Backups aren't confirmed backups until they are restored.
Scrödinger' backup?
@@InvadersDie are you certain?
@@SarkarMotion
Not sure... Haven't looked yet.
That's a thing alright
How do you restore a backup without a test system to restore to? or is there a safe way to do a test restore?
I was the Senior Team Lead/PTA for a Fortune-10 IT Tier 3. Retired, I was running my hand built FreeNAS system behind a hand built pfSense for a few years at my mountain home on late technology hardware. As I moved to being off-grid with my power, I found my daily power load could be significantly reduced by running a NetGate fanless appliance and a Synology NAS. I've noticed no real downside to running these boxed systems and I'm less than 14% of the previous PC/server based power usage. But you can always learn new things. There are some good ideas here, I'll look deeper... I have time, quarantine or not. Thanks, Wendell.
(PS, I've been following since you were just the back of a head)
Ah, the good old Tek days...
One important thing most people don't do is actually verifying their backups are in good order and can actually restore from backup. I have several VMs dedicated just for verifying the restoration process.
Tech me senpai
I have that problem dono how to check that .
I still have that problem don't know how to set it up 🤣
And the nice thing about rsync is that it doesn’t have any special format--the backup is just a bunch of copies of your files, nothing more. This is important for restoration, because that will often have to be undertaken at a time of high stress, perhaps with the data owner (boss, customer or family member) breathing down your neck. In that situation, it helps that the restoration can be done with the same file-manipulation commands you use every day.
I can't stress this enough for backups:
The main point of failure is between the chair and the keyboard. The chances of even a single hard drive failing is much lower than the chance of you messing things up.
So the main consideration with any backup strategy should be how do I make it harder for myself to accidentally delete my data.
I have had hard drives fail a couple of dozen times in my career so far. Personal stuffups that caused me to lose data have been much rarer. Backups for one reason help to protect against the other, as well.
harddrive failure is pretty common.
Funny, Ive not had a single drive of any kind fail in maybe 7-9 years.
The closest thing is crappy sandisk USB sticks taking themslves offline in firmware.
I started using RSync between my two Synology boxes in case one died so I could make the data live much faster than doing a full recovery. In my situation it works well. Yes, I still have real backups that get tested by my users regularly.
I'm running Synology's RS3618xs 6 x WD Red Pro 8TB Raid6 + 2 x Samsung 840 EVO 1TB Raid1 R/W cache + 1TB Samsung single SSD for experimenting with Synology's hypervisor. And an ancient, but still running/working, backup Synology DS211+ with 2x6 WD Red's in RAID1, which holds important stuff from main server.
That was oddly on time I currently have a backing up of 2 TB running right now.
Synology can encrypt stuff prior to uploading to google.
Google is trash. On-Prem storage/backup, or nothing.
@Buffy Foster If your data has any value, uploading it to any cloud is a terrible idea. Encrypted, or not. Trust you can put in the providers today is unacceptably low. It's basically become a risk management thing today, where you have to know what you're dealing with. Most people/businesses who go into cloud, have no clue.
@@sirius4k I have the opposite view, if your data has any value (sentimental or otherwise) then make as many copies of it as possible, if you really care about your data and you don't have/afford any better options then I would rather Google or whoever have a copy of it rather me losing it forever.
NAS at a friend's house (or for business, another premise they own, or the owners house for small single site business).
At my work, we have 2 shops. The backups go to a Synology NAS sitting in the shop that doesn't house the server.
For my home, the server is in the house, and the NAS is in the back shed about 20m away from the house.
In both cases, there is still a risk that we lose everything at once due to a 747 crashing on the town, or a massive flood taking them all out... But at that stage, we're probably dead anyway.
@Marlinchen Because they'll sell your data to the highest bidder in the same way Facebook does. Especially Google! Gmail and Facebook aren't free out of the good of their hearts. It is just bait to reel in the real product: your data. Which they sell on to make a profit. Like a fisherman buys bait, which the fish eat for free, he catches the fish and sells them to make a profit. This is the same reason why never to trust a free VPN like in Opera. Windows is not to be trusted either. Only open source with an active community can be trusted and even then who knows what malicious code is in the firmware of that cheap SSD you may be using.
How I manage backups:
1. raspberry pi turns automatically on.
2. I compress my home directory (with exceptions for directories like .steam).
3. I send it over ssh to my raspberry pi.
4. raspberry pi saves it on a disk with the name "main-weekly-TIMESTAMP.tar.gz".
5. raspberry pi manages the already saved backups to not have an excess amount.
6. raspberry pi turns off.
Thanks for the great content, do you have any experience with QNAP stuff?
Would be good to have a "wendelized" Synology vs QNAP video / series
I have yet to find an off-site backup solution that has about 5TB of storage that I could also access as a cloud storage. and that doesn't rip me 70 USD a month :p
I actually use rsync+ssh a lot for backing up but had no idea I could also restrict access. That is really interesting!
Jottacloud. Unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth, €7.50/month. I use it with Duplicati. Got several terabytes on there.
OK, ok. We get it, you're so much wiser than us. Now just bloody well tell us what we clicked to learn. It may come as a surprise but we don't all have nothing else to do!
Don't forget about BackBlaze B2 for data storage. I don't know of a cheaper option.
The key is having a google drive business account with multiple paying users, so each user has the "unlimited" googledrive storage, then mount it as an encrypted volume using rclone. Just don't use it as your only backup storage. This also works incredibly well for media storage(for a seedboy maybe?).
I share same concerns regarding backing up to any cloud service.. which is why I have 2 synology and one custom built freenas. 1synology for primary nas/storage (40tb) and other 2 for backups (60tb).
I'd suggest you to have a look at Syncthing for automatic, selective, decentralized backups. I've been using it probably for a few years, it just works, and it's very secure by default. Set it up, forget it, you're done.
Syncthing is a little finicky for backup, I'm not saying you cant use it but its a little complex as far as making sure you dont do anything stupid to loose data
I was actually suprised that Duplicity was not mentioned. It is a superb unix tool that encrypts your backup and uses rsync to sync your backup to cloud storage of your choosing. Supporting many platforms making it very flexible. The only thing that it does not support is fully automated key rotation.
Edit: When regarding those keys to recover your encrypted data, Paperkey is a good example of a medium (3-2-1) when you got the freedom of managing your own encryption key.
p.s. well..... you can lock a user down... but that would be jailing... or is that not the same thing? I mean you can pick and choose the programs that specific user is able to run?
I'm primarily a backup admin, and I had no idea there was a world backup day. I'm feeling neglected, LOL!
It's ok. First year on the job is a steep learning curve.
@@ShainAndrews yeah 20 years ago, it was. Not so much now. ;-)
@@bartacus3521 LOL. Take care buddy.
Make a big fuss. Let your boss and colleagues know.... They might rush out and buy you flowers or chocolates 😂
I just have my 3TB NAS synced up to a folder on a 4TB HDD in my Desktop with GoodSync. This folder is also being synced to BackBlaze and encrypted using my own key. 3TB is more than enough for me.
I dont have anything *really* important to back up but I finally decided to pull the trigger on Raspberry Pi 4B purchase to make a home video server.
If nothing else, I just want to watch random Star-Trek episodes on any of my devices without a need to copy files around.
When you check out NextCloud you'll have some to back up ;D
Nice now I am interested
Wednell, I am not sure SSH was designed in 1573 :P as mentioned here (th-cam.com/video/BVJ3CBaTkYM/w-d-xo.html)
Great video. Is there a companion document, perhaps with time stamps, for this video?
What is your bank vault when referring to keeping a copy of your encryption key?
I personally like using Borg backup (for a GUI I use Vorta)
Just saw new privacy policy today (Thursday, 14 May, 2020) which need to be acknowledged if i want to even open package manager which says a lot about data collection and 3rd party processing and all that BS... I have not acknowledged it, cancel it but now I can't use package manager. They have not given any option to opt out so I won't be able to run, stop, update anything about the packages...even older package until I permit them to use whatever they do under the name of data collection and data processing.
I back up my Synology NAS to a pair of USB hard drives. One goes in my desk at the office, and the other remains hooked to the Synology NAS. I swap them out back and forth every so often. I'd like to swap them more frequently, but COVID has made that difficult since I'm working from home.
Before I got the Synology NAS, I had attempted to create a NAS with a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and some USB hard drives. It did not go well because the Pi could not handle RAID duties reliably. But I might try something a little different: configuring the Pi as an offsite backup server at, say, my parents' house. It doesn't have to do RAID duties there, but the regular backups will make swapping hard drives between my home and my office obsolete.
I just need to buckle down and figure it out.
So in theory like a JBOD? If you plan so, why not buy used computer instead and repurpose that as a JBOD?
I love the background music 👍
I have a Buffalo NAS, and I use it for video storage, but I'm torn between a storage upgrade (I have 2TB in raid, which is half full) and getting a proper Synology NAS (since virtually every single NAS guide uses Synology). I haven't see many high-level tips that I can use for this older Buffalo NAS, but I'm sure they exsist.
xpenology?
What is the benefit of rsync over ssh vs sftp?
ftp is made to transfer files, rsync is made to duplicate a filesystem, the difference is that rsync is able to determine what needs to be transfered and transfer only what it needs to. It can also preserve things like permissions, symbolic links, etc which goes beyond transfering a file
Can synology work as a small business server? Or is it really made to only backup stuff? I'd like to do a fiber optic server for several computers to access the same folders.
i use rclone a lot.... its nice one you get over the command line thing. but yeah i need more backups in different formats...
How do you find it? I've heard a lot of stories about it being excruciatingly slow. I have worked with it a bit as I work with zfs based storage servers as well as Ceph object based storage clusters and some customers have wanted ways to upload to the cloud and it seemed first to be a great tool especially since it's compatible with so many different providers... But I've found when working with specific vendors like Amazon S3 or azure blob - it's much more efficient to use their tools... I've been using azcopy to export cephs RBD (block device images) and it's fantastic because it allows you to pipe the command so you can export directly to azure without having to store the sometimes massive RBDs in a secondary location while exporting
@@mitcHELLOworld I can only speak for windows and linux file transfers and google drive and mega transfers and so far its really quick. sounds like you need to do some experimenting with how many --transfers=x you can get away with the size of data your using. you will hit a point where it doesn't move any faster and it takes more time to check things. and i wouldn't do any more then 25... rclone dose has some caveats like it is quicker to download from google and then upload to mega not just go from google to mega. yes its caching google cant send to mega but the caching is slow for that... if you have the google drives set up right google drive to google drive with "--drive-server-side-across-configs" is nuts like GB/s nuts... my good goto command for non google stuff would be "rclone copy "Sorce:file" "Dest:file" --fast-list --transfers=10 -P"
but the only thing in my current setup is I/O through put. soo it takes me the same time to move 10 10GB files then 1000 1mb files.. lots of small files kills it. but yeah once you get over the setup, commands and build your self a cheat txt doc of commands its a real nice tool. has its draw backs like all tools but it dose the things it dose well..
I use do a local backup with borgbackup and push this to google drive with rclone works perfectly and google can't snoop.
Hmmm... never considered losing my Google account. Luckily I have an onsite backup of those photos and files.
At certain point of the video I received a desktop email notification and I thought it was Wendell censoring his swearing, only bizarro Wendell (level2techs Wendell) swears on video.
"Ha Haa" - it only took you 2.5 years to impliment 321 backup (incl. offsite) for Level1Tech's :)
" _Data Recovery PTSD: Prep for 45 Drives Offsite Backup_ " - Aug 26 2022
I want to use RSYNC for a remote backup over the internet without using port forwarding
Is there a reason for picking Synology over QNAP?
Only the software really. It's like whatever you like white or milk chocolate.
I prefer Synology personally, but just because their product was slightly cheaper for us to buy many years ago when we started suggesting NASes for business backups.
Thanks Synology!
Do you ever install/use a KDE desktop?
better question: any other desktop environment
Always great information, even if.. i wont do most of it.
If point and click is slick, what is double click?
I've got 6 2TB drives to backup on 15Mbit up... Please send help
Get two 12tb or higher density drives. move data to one drive, clone the drive. Store the clone at your parents/ friends. Get to university, they have fiber or at least 100megs upload. Dont dont do stupid shit though. Repurpose old pc hardware with old drives to build a nas to play around with
I feel your pain... My work backups happen over a wifi link to another building... It's 70mbps on a good day, but will drop to 30-40 at times.
Our full backups (once a month generally) can take up to 2 days depending on various conditions.
@@tin2001 A full upload would take me MONTHS, ;(
I just uploaded about a terabyte and it took 8 days.
What about instead of google, backup to Digital Ocean and using Cloudron.io to manage storage?
"World back up day" is about data? ..I've been driving in reverse all day!
With "the thing" going on, a large part of the world is currently going backwards.
Dude, awesome as always..
Not trying to be mean at all - great content - but why is the audio so bad? Got a fair bit of the compressed cellphone call or voip call garble sound going on.
Your videos are awesome content-wise, but you should really sort out the sound. Your voice sounds like it's compressed a lot. Sound really goes a long way for the general quality of a video.
It's completely fine.
“ ZFS is designed from the disk up for maximum performance. It beats rsync so badly that rsync’s mom needs urgent medical attention.”
-Jude and Lucas
Tell that to the price of DRAM
@@plapbandit you are confusing replication with backup. Rsync is for replication. In any case, the only advantage Rsync has its cross-platform and cross-filesystem.
rsync is good for backups, too. Its “--link-dest” option is handy for making incremental backups that look, for restore purposes, exactly like full backups. This makes it much easier to do a restore, versus the conventional rigmarole of going back to the last full backup, then doing a bunch of incremental restores on top of that.
Wendell I love your videos, but the mic in the past two sounds like it was recorded on a laptop. Something, anything would be better. Please, it takes so much from the video
Is the aspect ratio a bit funny? 16 by 10?
Ddrescue for system disk and rsync the data. Fingers crossed nothing explodes.
Easy minus button: let's say... XigmaNAS. It even has ZFS.
Synology all the things
Wendell is so important to this world
If you ever consider backing up your data on public cloud infrastructure...encrypt them properly before uploading
If its encrypted NO ONE can read it except the one with the key
Yes, they will store it, yes for the rest of YOUR AND THEIR lives...but your data stayes safe, because 4.5 million years to crack something, is veeeeeeery long time
funny watching todays video and seeing this thing making an appearance again literally year to date .......
are the single drive Synology any good?
They're exactly the same as the multi bay ones (of the same model range), except obviously no option for RAID.
Just remember you're only using one disk. I personally prefer to use RAID1 minimum even for backups, so that I don't find out the backup drive has died right when I need to restore a backup.
You still get the synology storage appliance side of things but not the redundant data safety side of things, so plan accordingly
I think I would literally die if I lost my Star Trek movie collection...
You mean TrueNAS Core? ;)
0:15 ... u no, fo wen u ded! :D
World backup day...sounds like a security risk to me.
Vote this up if you think Wendell should cover Tarsnap in a future video!
Wendell can you do a video on using zfs and open media vault?
meh bow down to our google overlord and all storage concerns are solved xD
Rclone: free
Google drive business: $12
I'm confused
man u talk alot. i leanred nothing
Oh it's sponsored. I get it.
I have an edge router and I dont even know what ssh stands for. All I know is that it's a remote access thing. GUI is better because too many command prompts don't accept copy paste and the | symbol sucks
Secure SHell. A very powerful tool.
Can you copy/paste GUI mouse clicks/keystrokes?
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And then how do you input that to the GUI?
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 oh i see what you're trying to say. You just havr to type less in a gui, and you don't need to learn all the commands. Want to change a value in a gui you just type the value. Try typing the value in the command prompt