I have been far luckier than that all my life, I never had a drive fail on me, and I keep them a looong time.

Maybe once, 20 years ago, a drive failed? Can’t really remember, but probably it did happen. Being on a Linux software RAID 1, just remove and plug a new drive, run an attach command and forget.

I have 4 6Tb HDDs which I got new from work: been running 24/7 for the last 6 years.

The 4Tb drives they replaced where running for the previous 10 years (bought new as well) and are still in a drawer, got replaced only for the opportunity to upgrade to 6tb.

If your refurbished last only 4 years, to be that is not a positive gain, you lost money. New drives should last 10 years in my personal (and debatable) experience. But I think those drives you bought will last more than 4 years.

Restic or Borg. For restic I use the great Backrest web GUI.

I mounted an USB drive to one of my OpenWRT access points and backup on that one.

Rclone or fuse can mount/access Google Drive and can be used as back end for your backup choice.

Simplest backup ever: restic/Borg on a folder on the same PC. Not very recommendable, but indeed a good starting point.

Zfs/brtfs seems a complex solution for a simple problem. True is that once you start eating you get hungrier so maybe worthwhile.

Their box is not going to play those videos, so AV1 is game.

Anyway software playback of AV1 is a thing, and works, you know.

I do it on daylight when my FV pumps out Wh…

A little bit day by day.

I have been hosting my mail server for over 10 years. You need to study dkim, dmark and all the other stuff, but it can be done indeed and its not scary at all.

If the price is right for you, go for it. You will run containers and or VMs, so doesn’t really matter what your bare metal is.

I would choose something where I can install Linux easily and nice and I am sure at the Mac mini price point you can build yourself an assembled mini-pc with beefer specs, but indeed it’s more work and hassle.

YMMV

Recode to AV1, free and open codec with a better compression and quality than 265.

Its future proof and more and more supported out of the box everywhere.

Either go tdarr, or check https://github.com/gardiol/media_fixer for a neat bash script capable of find and convert your videos automatically

I do. I find it very useful.

Is it safe? No idea, but its read only, so seems that they cannot operate on your bank account in any case. That feels safe enough for me.

These blog posts might seems a bit nahive, but making fun of them is not nice.

I still appreciated reading them and the raised some questions in me, even if maybe not the ones the author was aiming for.

Still interesting.

Whats wrong with people just criticizing everything around here? Are we getting toxic like “the other site”?

Not a bad take per-se, but a bit condescending. While I agree and like the KISS paradigm, remember that no solution works at a lower complexity level of the problem itself.

So, define your problem clearly, find the simplest possible solution. Don’t overcomplicate, I agree, but don’t be fooled by false hopes.

Is it really simpler? Yes. Will it scale if I need it to? Maybe not, but will I really need for it to scale?

And so on.

Nope!

Just wasted 3 days debugging an IP assigned to two devices… Not fun, don’t do it…

All that? Well, I understand your point, but honestly I have more fun learning something new, and was really little work.

Anyway… Its an option too

No you don’t need two: in fact I have only unbound setup to do everything with one piece of software.

Better or worse? No idea, but it works and its one less piece that might fail.

I have a quite rich selfhosted stack, and DNS is indeed part of it.

For such a critical piece of infrastructure I didn’t needed a container, just installed Unbound and did some setup for ad blocking and internal DNS rules.

Here my setup: https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=router:dhcp-dns

You could go with an independent pihole maybe, but that would double the chances of a hardware failure…

Using one device for everything might seem risky, but actually has less chances of failure ;)

That’s not the point. Maybe you can, but for how long? you will never stop asking the question with docker…

I think you wrote it back ways: transitioned from docker to podman?

Yeah podman should use quadlets, not compose, but still works just fine with docker compose and the podman socket!

Yes you need both 80 and 443 for certbot to work. Anyway having 80 to redirect to 443 is common and not a security risk.

Podman guys… Podman All the way…

There is no “write and forget” solution. There never has been.

Do you think we have ORIGINALS or Greek or roman written texts? No, we have only those that have been copied over and over in the course of the centuries. Historians knows too well. And 90% of anything ever written by humans in all history has been lost, all that was written on more durable media than ours.

The future will hold only those memories of us that our descendants will take the time to copy over and over. Nothing that we will do today to preserve our media will last 1000 years in any case.

(Will we as a specie survive 1000 more years?)

Still, it our duty to preserve for the future as much as we can. If today’s historians are any guide, the most important bits will be those less valuable today: the ones nobody will care to actually preserve.

Citing Alessandro Barbero, a top notch Italian current historian, he would kill no know what a common passant had for breakfast in the tenth century. We know nothing about that, while we know a tiny little more about kings.