Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:13:50PM +0000 schrieb Michael:
>
>
> Good points. I am a big fan of having stuff locally as well, because I don’t
> want to be dependent on a company’s servers and a working Internet connection.
> But this mostly applies to my mobile device, because I don’t have a data plan
> for mobile Internet.
>
>

That is my reason.  I already have some videos that are no longer
available.  Even references to the video ever existing is hard to find. 
If I lose them, I may never get them again.  So, I try to keep copies
and hang onto them.  Plus, while I've been fortunate and have a good
stable internet connection, both with DSL and fibre, I don't know what
next year or even next month will bring.  You add in all the censorship
that is going on, it gets even worse.  I have many videos that I
downloaded from youtube that have been removed because of basically, a
political position.  The people running Youtube doesn't like the content
so it was removed.  Keep in mind, those videos were instructional and
nothing about illegal activity or anything.  They just don't like the
content.  It's also why other sites came along so people could post the
exact same type of content. 

I don't always save everything but when I find a video that might be
useful, whether it is about repairing my old washing machine, repairs to
a firearm, planting trees from seeds or just a funny cat video, I save
it if it has some future value.  The bad thing, some channels that have
been removed for a small amount of videos Youtube didn't like also had
other videos removed as well.  I've noticed entire channels disappear. 
I can't trust the people running video websites to allow content even
for short term.  Post something they don't like, true or not, they can
and often do remove content and often remove entire channels. 

I don't trust my data to be on just one set of hard drives either, it's
why I make backup copies.  If one of my main drives lets the smoke out,
I've got a backup to restore from.  I wouldn't mind having two sets of
backups and one day, I just may.  I may end up with two NAS boxes, each
a independent backup copy.  May on alternate weeks or something.  If
possible, I wouldn't mind having backups where I can even go back in
time a bit.  Just in case I need a file that I deleted and then was
deleted from the backups as well. 

If this Raspberry thing works and is fairly cheap, I may end up with two
NAS boxes as backups and a NAS box as the actual storage itself. 

Since I can't trust people who run websites, I have to trust myself. 
Keep local copies, back those up just in case. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

P. S.  Seamonkey still doesn't automatically fetch emails.  It's really
annoying.  :/