Can’t wait for longer days. Trying a weekly photo challenge, but with a full time job it doesn’t leave much light to use.

Cool, thanks

That’s very cool. Makes planning much simpler.

Does anyone know if its possible to perform a disk replacement in RAIDZ1 without taking a disk out of the array first? E.g. i have a 3 disk raidz1 array and I want to replace a disk before it fails, so first I add the new disk, and have the data sync over it before then pulling the old disk out. So basically the array is never degraded and always has the 1 disk redundancy.

Backups only used blocks. Backup to or from various locations, NFS shares, ftp, WebDAV, ssh server, samba, etc. Encryption of the images, backup of single partitions or whole disks.

If you want to deploy to several machines at once it also has a load of tools for that too.

You 100% want to use Clonezilla for this job. It should be on everyone’s Ventoy stick.

Have you heard of sunlight?

so each new ticket requires destroying and regenerating your workspace.

Now I don’t understand that. Complete your ticket, pull in changes from other and carry on.

What SCM are you using?

Ubuntu Server LTS releases are unbelievably good. They are absolutely solid as a rock. I’ve had several VMs running it for almost a decade with zero issues.

Ubuntu desktop doesn’t suit my use case though,and nor does Gnome.

Who has more chance of a single disk failing today: me with 6 disks, or Backblaze with their 300,000 drives?

Same thing works with 6 vs 2.

Seagate “raw read error rate” is a terrifyingly big number if everything is hunky dory.

They’re in a drafty garage. This time of year I keep them spinning to stop them freezing 🤣

Yeah flat out spinning is definitely better for reliability.

The reason I went RAIDZ2 in my current setup was because of the number of disks increasing the chance of multi failures. But with fewer disks that goes down. I’m not at all worried about data loss, as I said I have good backups so I can always restore. So if the remaining disk dies during a rebuild, that’s unfortunate, but it only affects my uptime, not my data.

So a year ago you spent over 3k on disks?

That’s the exact opposite of my experience, if we’re talking anecdotal evidence. I’ve had 3x WD Red drives die within the warranty period,so thankfully I wasn’t out of pocket, but I now avoid them. Never had a Seagate go bad, but my goto is now Toshiba.

I moved from a Drll R710 with dual docket Xeons to a rack mount desktop case with a single Ryzen R5 5600G. I doubled the performance and halved the power consumption in one go. I do miss having idrac though. I need a KVM over IP solution but haven’t stomached the cost yet. For how often I need it it’s not an issue.

The comment section there is all “please release steam os for desktop.and I’ll switch immediately”. And I’m just sat here with EndeavourOS running all my games perfectly like, “just install Linux already with steam”

I have some scripts that use restic to backup to locally connected USB drives weekly.

The USB drives are connected to smart plugs that I control via home assistant and some webhooks. So the drives are off and stay off when not in use for the backup. I also don’t turn them both on at the same time.

I bought an Odroid HC2 years ago with the intent to have it connect over wireguard and mount to the NAS VM. Then I could put it in a friends house and use it as an offsite backup.

I also sometimes backup to backblaze

Man, I’m tired just reading about all that work in the sun. Best of luck to you.

What kind of desk are you aiming to build?