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  • 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.












  • 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.







  • Shimitar@feddit.ittoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldDNS?
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    2 months ago

    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 ;)