Who would not be better served with more back-ups including offsite redundancies?
For good reason many of us have our own vehicles, housing, computers...?
However, but a casual read of these exchanges on having one's own NAS is clearly not for the faint hearted. i would also imagine there many others who like Trevor are not found of so-called third party cloud services with all the risks he articulated.
Wondering what interest there might be in doing another variant on a Muug type project but specific to creating a Muug type back-up service and mirrored for increased saftey. One system with huge memory would be but a tiny fraction of many of us doing our own. I'm not suggesting our people with know how do this as a labour of love but as a kind of community minded coop.
Looking ahead to security needs, I would however suggest data entry security be as tight as access, cause one would not want a rip-van-Winkle poison pill virus to be added for potential nefarious wake-up if and when ever the back-up was used as a restore and have a trogan nested within.
Eduard On 28/01/2023 3:09 AM, Trevor Cordes wrote:
People who know me know I *hate* cloud. If this is the cheapest cloud out there, then it's still too much money *if you are a techie who knows what they are doing and likes futzing with hardware*. (For average Joes, ya ok.)
Your 5TB use case would appear to equal $25/mo at this place. You can often find 5TB USB3 drives on blowout for under $100. So in 4 months you're paying more than the DIY backup solution. The cloud solution will cost you that fee *forever*.
And with the cloud, all your base belong to them (and NSA, and other .gov with or without a warrant). And you must trust they are having the appropriate level of redundancy/protection, and it's not just some dude with their own external USB3 drive on a Pi!! Will you bet your life on the data being there when you need it? What's your recourse? Almost all places will just refund the fee you paid (if that)... can't sue for the value of lost data. _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable