anamethatisnt

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[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Options if it's to protect against local disasters such as fire:

  1. Having a NAS at a family member / friends house as a backup location for your NAS (over vpn) is an option. Works best if they also need an offsite backup with you being able to spare space for it on your NAS in return.
  2. Having at least two usb drives as backup locations for the NAS and rotated as often as you think necessary and having at least one stored offsite at a family member / friends house.
  3. Rent a proper 1U rack space in the city data centre and setup your own "cloud", definitely the most expensive option and total overkill if offsite backup is the only reason.

Personally I would probably go for option two and bring the usb drive with me for a weekly coffee with my parents, they'd enjoy the visit and I enjoy knowing that my backup isn't in the hands of Amazon. I'd go for option 1 if my internet was better.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

GOG stands for Good Old Games and preserving those and fixing them to be playable on modern systems is part of their business plan. Install GOG Galaxy and you can install the games with a few clicks, after buying them of course.
https://www.gog.com/en/game/quake_ii_quad_damage
https://www.gog.com/en/game/quake_the_offering

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I really hope that day never comes. I dont trust Meta one bit and refuse to use their ecosystem of services. Care to link the mentioned articles?

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago

In the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in 2022, critics say that Telesur has spread Russian disinformation in Latin America.

Also:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/telesur/

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you for adding your troubleshooting and solution to the thread. This is gonna turn into Wisdom of the Ancients eventually. ;-)

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)
  1. Check if you're behind CGNAT
    The allocated address block for CGNAT is 100.64.0.0/10, i.e. IP addresses from 100.64.0.0 to 100.127.255.255. If your routers WAN IP is one of those then selfhosting stuff accessible from outside requires a lot more work. Ask your ISP if you can have a public IP address and what the cost is or go into the rabbit hole of bypassing cgnat with a vps.

  2. If you're gonna host data, especially other peoples data*, learn and use the 3-2-1 backup strategy
    For proxmox which I talk about more further down you can look into their own Proxmox backup server solution.

  3. Data redundancy, either through BIOS/UEFI RAID1 (for two disks) or RAID10 (for four disks) or by running ZFS
    This isn't a backup, this is about being able to replace a faulty drive without downtime and having an easier rebuild process compared to restoring from backup.

  4. Virtualization, for a beginner that already runs linux I would recommend Proxmox
    This makes it more complicated to get started but easier to maintain the installation and easier to migrate it to new hardware.
    It also allows you more room to learn by doing, that's the bonus of the easier restore, cloning and snapshotting of virtual machines compared to bare metal.

*If you're new to selfhosting then begin with yourself and having only local in-house access. As a step 2 learn how to setup a vpn for access from the outside. Step 3 would be learning how to use a reverse proxy, lets-encrypt and so on for SSL access without vpn.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Ah, that's good to know!
My jellyfin server is only available over vpn (and locally) so I haven't much looked into beefing up the security on the jellyfin server itself.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, the reverse proxy will need to be able to handle the network bandwidth of your video stream too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_proxy

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

I imagine something like Ontrack will quote you at least $1000
If you consider the data worth that then I would go for one of the big known firms.
If not then I would start researching how to replace a pcb and risk losing the data.

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