Building a 26TB Offsite Backup Server! ft. Tailscale

[@WolfgangsChannel]

Check out Tailscale: tailscale.com/wolfgangschannel My NixOS IaC: github.com/notthebee/nix-config PSU Idle Power Efficiency Database: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TnPx1h-nUKgq3MFzwl-OOIsuX_JSIurIq3JkFZVMUas/edit?pli=1#gid=1442784109 Case geni.us/qrwTaA Motherboard geni.us/1exNgH Motherboard (Alternative) geni.us/uToSLRQ RAM geni.us/BjWTS PSU geni.us/fHj7TE HDDs (WD Red Pro) geni.us/mmAbxS HDDs (WD MyBook - Shucked) geni.us/1cUBKau BliKVM PCIe: www.blicube.com/blikvm-v2-pcie/ Pineci Soldering Ironl: pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-soldering-iron/ As an Amazon Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases

[@EmperorTerran]

m.2 to sata thingie?

[@wstrake]

The whole deadpan "I didn't steal the idea from Hardware Haven because I'm backing up to MY parents' house, not his parents' house" joke got an INSTANT like and subscribe out of me.

[@demonprincemeliodias6590]

Not gonna lie I missed it.😅

[@defekT1312]

Exactly. I was already a Subscriber but that comment made me instantly minimize the Video and Hit the thumbs up button 😅

[@yanuk818]

Lol all while saying it with a straight face

[@cateyenebula]

No cap, I genuinely loled

[@Kosh42EFG]

I laugh snorted at that line. Genius.

[@HardwareHaven]

God, the fumbling of lines is so.... so... true. Also, I don't know who in their right mind would think you stole the idea from me?? CLEARLY you're backing things up to YOUR parents' house. Duh.

[@blazingblanch]

Real

[@JeffGeerling]

0:33 what!? I *never* reuse any clips! Ha.

[@AndyIsHereBoi]

i keep finding you on "smaller" youtubers channels

[@JeffGeerling]

@@AndyIsHereBoi That's because they are awesome! Love the homelab community on YT

[@TrionicSeven]

As a developer on the Immich team, I'm happy to see it mentioned here :)

[@uh_niece]

I think there should be a crossover episode where you shows up to Colton's Parent's house and attempts to install your backup NAS

[@justinbouchard]

yes.

[@porcuzburator8778]

The intro about the viewers' protests put a smile on my face! No protest from this viewer! I learned a lot and reduced my home lab power consumption a bunch thanks to you! You have my appreciation!

[@dekessé]

Popular people on the internet can literally say that the weather is nice, and there will be people who protest. Thanks to Wolfgang for not giving a damn and continuing to make videos.

[@dexterman6361]

what protest and why? I've only seen good content from him

[@Mr____Muffin]

Wolfgang is the KZbinr that I'll always drop everything just to watch his videos, they're entertaining and extremely helpful with networking in general.

[@0xs1m0n]

I tried backing up to AWS Glacier a while ago. I have about 20TB of data, and used rclone to encrypt data before uploading. Every time rclone ran, it had to compare the local files with the remote files to see which had to be copied. This produced API costs on AWS. Additionally, if I’d delete a file locally I would get punishment cost on AWS because I’d delete files too soon. With all these additional costs I had around 250$/month for 20TB on AWS, which makes AWS why more expensive than an offsite NAS at your parents :)

[@astrocactus3910]

Depending if your relationship with your parents this part might end up being a minus. Love it

[@PandaMoniumHUN]

Whenever you mention Glacier you should also mention that retrieval is dog slow (even if your internet is fast), and you'll be paying for every gigabyte that you download. That $70 retrieval fee looks nice on paper, until you realize it's only the request fee to start retrieving your data. You'll be paying a data transfer fee at ~$0.1/GB on top of it during download, so in total you'll get your 14TB of data for roughly $1500. Never recommend Glacier to anyone, unless they really, really have no other option.

[@l0gic23]

Good info. Thx

[@45KevinR]

Ouch.

[@willowpilled]

wake up babe, wolfgang uploaded

[@SatsJava]

LFG

[@willowpilled]

@@epicepicenter715 ???

[@RazoBeckett.]

Oh ya

[@gogota_]

​@@epicepicenter715That's good one 😅

[@Zac_Cole]

Said nobody ever

[@c0p0n]

Wolfgang's "hey, it works" channel

[@misku_]

... on my machine. Sorry, on his machine. Sorry, on his parent's machine, not Hardware Haven parent's machine

[@thiagoassisfernandes]

dang, didn't expect the nixos bit! just made my media server with nixos as well, and i've been loving it can't wait for your vid about it

[@alyti]

nixos mentioned lets fucking goooo

[@labbiee]

You have no idea how helpful this was, I'm currently making an offsite backup server and needed software suggestions! I had done some research but now I have to try borg!

[@Sherbibv]

I know right? I just finished a week ago and went with plain rclone. Now I HAVE to lookup borg 🙄

[@blazenetwork242]

Honestly, I've seen this video like 5 times. Wolfgang your videos are seriously awesome and very engaging. Please keep doing what you're doing :) You definitely inspired me to get into the craft which has brought so much joy to my life. Thank you.

[@dotcaodin]

Thank you so much for this video! It's priceless, all the tools mentioned, the setup, and the clues you gave. Keep up your good job!

[@Mikesco3]

This has probably been one of the best videos in this category that I've seen so far. I love how not only you put together an awesome well thought out solution that is doable by a lot of common folk. But you also leave a treasure trove of information for us to research and dig into. I eagerly wait for more or your videos!

[@NigelBassman]

Wolfgang, your previous video came at just the moment I was looking at multi-TB backup solutions, so after reviewing other options I built it with a similar config. (The case is a really nice solution.) While waiting for this video I researched and decided on Unraid and have been very happy with it for a relative newbie in this space. Then just as I’ve been looking at my on-site-but-off-site (house and separate office/workshop buildings) backup options for my NAS this one drops. I won’t need much of your config, but some of the software I’ll definitely check out. Thank you.

[@andreas.grundler]

Unfortunately, you currently have to expect a delivery time of several weeks for this case. This is the disadvantage of the Jonsbo cases. They are almost always sold out.

[@Fabian-_-]

Wooo, NixOS, nice! All my servers, desktops and laptops run NixOS and it's awesome! Aswell as tailscale, just makes networking sooo easy and can be self hosted thx to Headscale :D

[@PandaMoniumHUN]

Ah, Wolfgang's "how I put multiple fire hazards packaged into a computer at my parent's house".

[@Alan.livingston]

They have life insurance

[@RickMyBalls]

don't forget that fan inevitably falling one day and making a scary grinding noise

[@kritikusi-666]

way to Flex with the whole "My Parents love me" lol

[@acubley]

Not to mention flexing that he still has both parents, jeez...

[@JackPackTV]

Danke! Tailscale funktioniert prima und ist DIE Lösung für mich!

[@zer0r00t]

S3 glacier deep archive data is not stored on physical tapes. The page you showed is about a tape gateway service that emulates a virtual tape drive so companies who use actual tapes on site can use the same software to backup to S3 while still keeping the ability to access old physical tape backups on site

[@b0ne91]

I never knew you were based in Hamburg! The train station footage used sent me on a little investigative journey. I'll definitely say hi if I ever run into you. This channel has been super useful as far back as the ThinkPad CPU upgrade videos

[@acubley]

What a coincidence! I made a hamburger for lunch. 😉 (That sounded better in my head, but, oh well...)

[@aimpizza6823]

Lets go, NixOS!! I've been wanting to convert the home server too

[@chjadam]

Coincidently dropped in and discovered by far one of the most entertaning and informative channels around, not only cause I still stick to my old "red nipple" X220, still enjoying the charme of slowness. LOL

[@JohnSmith-yz7uh]

Syncthing does work without VPN, encryption can be set up and sync can be one way. You can have versioning for file history.

[@sku2007]

according their docs encryption is considered beta (few weeks ago I checked)

[@mrmotofy]

That's what Tailscale is for. I use it on my phone to backup phone data, get home connect to WiFi and poof it's zips away to the server

[@sku2007]

to be clear, I meant the optional encryption on the target device, meaning storing the data encrypted. Not the transmission encryption, this is normal TLS.

[@JohnSmith-yz7uh]

@@sku2007 the data will be encrypted on the target device. It is encrypted by the source and encrypted in transit

[@sku2007]

@@JohnSmith-yz7uh yes, but encrypting on source is optional and beta. default is to store unencrypted on target, that's what I meant

[@ChatGTA345]

Please note that Glacier retrieval costs only cover the cost of moving the data from Glacier to regular S3 (!). You'd also then need to pay egress fees for actually downloading retrieved data from S3, which are substantially larger. For 14 TB worth of data, you're looking at roughly 14000 GB * $0.09 per GB = $1260 (!) That's enough to build a very beefy NAS!

[@WolfgangsChannel]

Yep, somehow I’ve missed that…

[@ChatGTA345]

@@WolfgangsChannel I think that makes your NAS even more attractive 😅

[@HumblyNeil]

While I'm not personally sponsored by Tailscale, I too am doing the parents' nas backup option.

[@mrmotofy]

My only parent now lives with me...not an option. But another relative with Fiber internet...that's an option

[@picabolo93]

I actually had the Asus MOBO on my list until I saw your video about the Asrock one, which I discarded because of the 19 V. After seeing your Asrock build I think I'd go for that one, because of the DIMM vs SO-DIMM, PCIe x2 vs x1 and extra native SATA. It is a pretty janky power solution tho... Also, thanks for the PSU efficiency database!! It's so great to have all that info so neatly organized

[@yarashalam]

Your witty Tailscale KZbinr partent offsite backup sponsorship quip just earned you a sub 🤣

[@pieronompleggio3910]

@WolfangsChannel last question I swear, I'm undecided between the Asrock or Asus motherboard, I would be tempted by the Asus because then I don't have to solder any cables, but I saw that the Asrock motherboard reaches 32GB of RAM unlike the other one which reaches 16. what I would do with it would be jellyfin home assistant, some docker and at least one virtual machine, what do you recommend?

[@romapires]

One thing is for sure: you won’t be burning down Colton’s parents’ house.

[@jimbojimberson9934]

Thanks for the review on the Jonsbo case. I've had my eye on it for a while.

[@LeminskiTankscor]

Hey for anyone using this board, the N100DC-ITX manual references using onboard power for 4 drives, so dont be afraid to do that with an adequate splitter and power supply (AsRock recommened 90W) Ive 4x HDDs and an SDD on a SATA power splitter for months without issue. That said, other boards like N100M and H4+ do still have advantages

[@erictrinque6513]

double sided tape never gonna hold with heat build up. Cool build never the less

[@Weeem]

If it's 3M tape then it might be ok.

[@dennypilot9856]

I'll have you know that with Davinci Media Management you can choose to copy those parts of your footage that you choose in new files (original quality and metadata), after which the original footage can be deleted. That way you will only have good takes taking up your storage space and will not bloat with bad takes and moments of silence. Also ffmpeg can cut footage at keyframes without re-encodind.

[@WolfgangsChannel]

Thanks for the tip!

[@Majiy00]

didn't expect a NixOS reference there! Subscribed!!!

[@Richardus33]

Love your content! Would prefer more frequent if possible. Learned allot and its one of the best tech channels in my book.

[@Slate245Ivanovo]

A day with a video from Wolfgang is a good day. Couple of questions: - what about nix having no AppArmour/SELinux support? I'm putting nix on servers off mainly because of this (paranoia talking prob) - have you thought of making a guide to backing up? Covering what to backup, how to set it up, and how to restore from one. If that's not something you're interested in, then what'd you recommend to read on this topic? Thanks for the videos and all the hard work you put into them!

[@JZL003]

Yeah I'm curious what you think too. I host a little public vps with a lot of services I use and if it got fully attacked there's a good amount of information there My current solution is to only have httpd exposed to the Internet and then all the sub services are on docker. Then I use systemd hardening to try to limit what a hypothetical apache 0 day could do (and if they break into a sub service, hopefully docker is containerized well enough). Doesn't feel wonderful For this I think he's just using tail scale so nothing public on the Internet. Maybe for the photo backup it needs a public endpoint

[@JZL003]

You can set up nixos to update nightly which makes me feel better. But have to hope apache is updated fast enough (Could use traefik but I sometimes hack something fast in php and it's nice to just have plain apache) Also did backups, I wanted the simplest possible backup solution. I like rclone just straight up wirh backblaze- super super simple, you can FUSE mount your remote to recover a single file, b2 has versioning, you can hook into cloud flare too get free egress But not compressed

[@JohnSmith-yz7uh]

The on two different medium refers to different server/harddrives. If you have 2 copies on the same array/server its only one copy. It does not need to be on different types of medium. Buying harddrives from a different vendor or shop ensures its not the same manufacturing batch, so the will not likely fail at the same time as the others.

[@D3coded_de]

Very interresting naming scheme for your machines. Calling them like the girls from Pretty Little Liars is kinda neat.

[@m1k4c]

no, no, that "home server" is just a NAS :D

[@JOHNSMITH-ve3rq]

Feel like it would actually be super valuable to do a nix walkthrough. Coming from a nonexpert actually makes it more valuable , counterintuitively, because you don’t yet suffer the knowledge curse. So, please reconsider!

[@otrab1080]

I'm Australian and it's really cute when Germans think they have bad internet.

[@67fabs]

Out of curiosity... You make a reference to restic but use borg ? What did you choose the latter ? Same for ZFS, why using MergerFS instead of ZFS especially you already using it on your machine ? (In this setup, using zfs send/receive with syncoid and sanoid could be nice). On other point, I'm surprised by the low speed in Germany while in France the 8Gbps symmetrical speed is becoming the standard OO PS : Syncthing rocks ! NixOS too (but even using it for a year I feel far far from mastering it) :)

[@protator]

In most parts of Germany 1Gbps via copper cable is the best you can get in residential areas, and that's if you're lucky and live in an area with 'modern' infrastructure. Fiber connections are a distant dream for most ppl here. We've fallen behind quite a bit when it comes to anything internet related.

[@67fabs]

@@protator My guess, is that in France they decided to make a full switch (still a work in progress) to reduce cost maintenance and due to the copper price

[@45KevinR]

Di d you transfer your existing massive archive onto the new box? I presume you did that locally?

[@eden7786]

I really enjoyed the video! Please keep making more.

[@aeleequis]

Who tf is complaining about you making videos? They don't have any taste smh. Keep at it, your info is useful and entertaining

[@davegrg123]

Thank you! Is a difference the base software? I am building my first build now and was planning on unraid or truenas, so I guess I’m building a ‘NAS’. Typically - what OS is used for ‘home servers’?

[@aliancemd]

21:12 Found it slightly amusing that he is comparing “this is how much I would of payed AWS” and “this is how much my parents will have to pay” :)

[@alphenit]

@0:38 I think I have the same inter-tech case as you, was wondering what are using to keep the hard drives cool since there isn't much room to put in big fans.. I don't mind that your consider yourself lazy always enjoy your videos..!

[@WolfgangsChannel]

The front grill has mounts for 50mm fans (at least I think it’s 50mm. I’ve 3D-printed some adapters to mount 40mm Noctua fans there, and for now my drive temperatures have been alright. I use helium drives though, and these don’t get very hot. I imagine that with air filled 7200 RPM drives (like WD Red Pro) you’d have a much harder time keeping them under 50 C I also use hddfancontrol to control the fan speed depending on the drive temperature

[@alphenit]

@@WolfgangsChannel Awesome! I think I did something similar with installing a 50mm fan in the front (with a zip tie) and 2x40mm in the back (replaced the noisy fans from inter-tech) completely silent now. Although I love to keep hard drive temp as low as possible from what I've read they can function fine at temp in the range 50-55 C but will probably depend on the type

[@szszg]

Thanks Wolfgang, that Tailscale is just what I needed.

[@lego_minifig]

My ultimate goal is to eventually have two servers with the same data. Finally got around to building the first one with an i7-8700, 64GB RAM, GTX 1080, and 32TB of usable space with the goal of upgrading it to 144TB of usable space so I wont have to worry about upgrading it for ages. When I move out I would like to build a new workstation and convert my current 3900x, 64GB RAM, 2080 Super system into the server I take with me and have the servers sync with each other periodically.

[@mrmotofy]

There's lot's of miniPC available used for just a few bucks

[@lego_minifig]

@@mrmotofy miniPC’s wont cut it for my personal use case. I also run multiple game servers on my unraid server so I needed a more powerful CPU and at least 64GB of ram. For building a simple NAS and media server with around 2-4 drives, buying a used miniPC is definitely the way to go on a budget. I saw many options on eBay around the $40 range.

[@marc2509]

Nice build! Any guides or reference for the soldering connection on the board?

[@destronger5313]

Honestly, the big flex would be having your offsite at HH’s parents house.

[@guilherme1556]

hey wolfgang, what do you think about those mini itx board sold on aliexpress equiped with i3 n305 for a low powered nas build?

[@dobob9635]

Nice video! Thanks! Btrfs could be agoi choice for using various disks. It can do raid1 with different sizes!

[@yash.alapuria]

At 22:45 how can we use Raspberry Pi for Backup? Kindly explain

[@zo1dberg]

There's a gazillion great ideas in this video. Thanks!

[@maxarendorff6521]

Heck yeah dude. You almost have my setup now. Except yours is way more advanced as always lmao.

[@yo_mono]

You mention Restic in the video, but then you say you went with Borg for backups. Can you explain what made you decide that? What advantages do you see in Borg over Restic?

[@TingelTangel-dn4pi]

Hi, maybe I missed the part, are you using the 12VDC from the PC PSU for the mainboard. The manual says that the board needs 19VDC +-10%.

[@WolfgangsChannel]

I mentioned it in my previous video, but basically - the motherboard also works just fine with 12V

[@basdfgwe]

My sister lives overseas, so I had her take back a synology ds923+ filled with 16TB drives. The reason why I chose syngology was that I couldn't readily access the nas physically and my sister was not technically literate. So the off the shelf that just needs a RJ75 to get itself online was perfect, and I had to video call her to guide her on how to connect the RJ45.Once it was connected I had access to it through its quick connect feature. So now I have geo-redundancy. Only issue I would face is if a HD dies.

[@mrmotofy]

There's LOTS of remote operation options

[@pieronompleggio3910]

Hey Wolfgang, in the previous video in the component list there was also the Pico PSU here instead I don't hear or read about it, am I miss something? Another question that I have is that also in the previous video you use the Sharkoon SilentStorm SFX Bronze 450W here instead you use the Corsair and the Sharkoon it's not either in the google sheet file, why?

[@WolfgangsChannel]

The PicoPSU was only used to measure the power draw, as I mentioned in the video. The Sharkoon PSU hasn’t been tested by Cybenetics, so it’s not in the spreadsheet I used Corsair instead of the Sharkoon because it’s not sold anymore, so i won’t be able to use it for my future videos and recommend it to the viewers. Might as well put it to good use somewhere else

[@pieronompleggio3910]

@@WolfgangsChannel Thank you very mush for the answer, I'm a bit rusty at these things. It's been years since I built a computer. The list of power supplies is very long. Do you recommend anything in particular? Is Sharkoon okay? or better to take one from that list?

[@WolfgangsChannel]

I would just clone the spreadsheet, sort by efficiency (20 or 40W, depending on your hardware), filter by the form factor/price, and see what's available for purchase

[@pieronompleggio3910]

@@WolfgangsChannel Ok thank you I will do it, instead about form factor? I will also want to use Jonsbo N2, I want to make the same build as your but with a couple of hd for now

[@pieronompleggio3910]

@@WolfgangsChannel Ok for the Jonsbo N2 I need SFX, it's difficult to find something in that list available and simple to buy, it's important the Cybenetics rating?

[@karliszemitis3356]

I have tried a lot of data backup options and honestly, btrfs and zfs send-recieve is the only decent one. Borg is grest but as you point out - runs very long time. Same with everything else. This is OK for static data but very risky for active. Backup up a snapshot though is safe.

[@HenkBakker]

Not sure if someone already mentioned it in the comments, but you also pay for egress data in S3. I've had the same setup for my photos. And when my NAS failed and I had to restore it from S3, I had to pay like 700 dollars in egress costs. one way to circumvent this is to download the max amount per month for the free tier and then download another part the next month etc etc.

[@ewoks42]

Regarding PSU idle DB, did you do or saw something similar for SBC boards like RaspberryPi, OrangePi? I'm curious about consumption power per compute power, as well as compute power per board price

[@sutyi06]

Vid goes hard, I'm sending this to my data-hoarder friend.

[@RagnarRipper]

I look forward to being the "parents" part of this equation. Minus needing to learn to use the system and wondering what it is doing.... since I already have a server going.

[@stucorbishley]

Hey I was wondering about the reasons you use ZFS and mergerfs, is that a different host? Different set of disks? What’s the split and what are your reasons for each?

[@Leonardo-hj3tz]

What do you think about the cwwk n100 nas motherboard? It hase several advantages oover the Asus Board. But is a China Motherboard, so i am not sure about it😅

[@mrmotofy]

I picked up a Dell 1U R210II for $50 has room for 2 3.5". Not blazing fast but very solid machines and uses around 30w idle

[@shalak001]

Love your content man. Do you plan to do a server build that is more powerful, so it could handle bigger loads, including AI image/text generation, hosting several game servers etc, but still remain power-efficient?

[@v0ldy54]

Speaking about uploading times, my mom is a teacher and with her Google's education accoutn she had 10TB of cloud storage available, with the upload speed we had at the time I calculated that to fill up all that space it would have taken more than 6 years of continuous upload.

[@Napert]

i want to make an offsite backup for my nas, but i'm not sure if my offsite location won't be taken away by construction of a new road (it will either go right through the offsite location or very close to it)

[@the_markus]

Awesome Video! What is that GUI you are using at 15:39 on your firewall?

[@WolfgangsChannel]

OpenWRT

[@henrik2117]

The parents comment is the best! 😅 You could btw include redundancy by mirroring between each others parents houses! 😉

[@slurp50s]

I've wanted to build an offsite server for backup for a very long time. But I don't have the upload bandwidth. I have 2 ISP companies that I load balance between, but it's still not great. I have a detached shed that I've dug my own lines too. I'm adding a new backup server there. I know it's not fully "offsite", but I run a home business and my upload bandwidth is already pushed to the limits without having my 192 TB (92TB useable) being backed up as well. I utilize RClone to upload data to the cloud while also encrypting it and I have dedicated 12TB of that data as critical and that's backed up with Rclone. But I really wish I had fiber so that way I could have significantly more offsite backup power.

[@andreas.grundler]

To quote Andrew Tannenbaum "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." An offsite backup can be as simple as a couple of USB disks that you rotate on a regular basis and on which the highly critical data is backed up. You can either leave the disks with a friend or relative or in a safe deposit box that you have rented.

[@slurp50s]

@@andreas.grundler Very true sir. And I agree. I've very much been over thinking it for quite some time and I've been working towards actually fixing the situation. Especially because my data is very important to me. Even with low upload bandwidth, I can still get X gb out reliably. I actually plan to ask my mom if I could setup a raspberry pi at her house. Which I have set up her whole network, AP's, etc. So, I don't think she'll mind but of course I'll ask. And I plan on having a small few TB of backup storage at her house :) That way at least the most critical data to me is never lost. I actually had a massive file server crisis last month. I recovered critical data out of sheer luck. I've had the fear of god struck into me.

[@mrmotofy]

@@slurp50s You must make a lot of money with your precious Corn collection haha

[@slurp50s]

@@mrmotofy Brother, I wish this earned me money lol 🤣Though, on the flip note, I found a way to upload all the data with my limited bandwidth. Pre-compressing is amazing! I'm nearly done building my own custom syncing code & compression. But as you said. The Corn must be protected!

[@yapzanan6753]

yoo this is the most hoarder mindset video that I've ever watched. Love it!

[@florian8782]

Isn't the retrieval cost and bandwidth cost of aws s3 extremely high? Didn't watch the whole video, but I think it's an important factor for the cost breakdown

[@hertgsesrht3499]

Yeah you uploaded! I have a content suggestion and challenge for you! Make a NAS in Jonsbo N3 with 8 drives and a GPU. That supports only Mini ITX board. How can we go about it. A system capable in small form factor.

[@mehdimido5270]

interested to see if used laptops with broken screens can be used as a NAS. Power efficiency can be good but adding large amounts of storage will be challenging and costly.

[@dedvzer]

If your upload speed is limited, you'll have the same issues with this off-site NAS as with AWS right? Also, in terms of power draw, 6x HDD + cpu/mobo is 50~60W idle, at €0.35/kWh that's €12/month (unless solar). So that's €120 per year cheaper for the self hosted off-site NAS. If you don't have the HDDs laying around and need to purchase, AWS or cloud is pretty good.

[@WolfgangsChannel]

Serves me right for not being precise enough. I meant for the initial upload. You also don’t need to estimate the power consumption - I went over it in the video.

[@dedvzer]

@@WolfgangsChannel I watched till the end and considered scrapping the whole post 😃 I'm all for DIY vs cloud, but it's scary how price competitive it is. Also, there's Azure Data Box, which is basically what you took to your parents.

[@finzic]

Hi Wolfgang! Great video! I just bought an ASUS N100I-D D4 motherboard and a Sharkoon Silent Storm SFX 80 Plus Gold 500W PSU. Assembling the motherboard with 3x2TB WD RED disks and a Crucial 240GB SSD for Linux, this system idles ad 19.9W. Is this what you would expect from such a system in terms of idle power? Thanks!

[@WolfgangsChannel]

Provided the hard drives are not in spindown mode, yes, that sounds about right

[@finzic]

@@WolfgangsChannel Thank you for the answer! No they are not in spindownmode, or at least I did not put them into that mode because I have configured them as a ZFS pool.

[@aaron4th2001]

hello! what are your thoughts on cosmos server, it is a container that basically simplifies and manages many of the home server such as mergefs, snapraid, creating docker containers, setting up tls certificate, and much more. Really helps with people who are not knowledgeable enough with linux/dockers, and it's also powerful for people who are knowledgeable. also I appreciate your vids, watched your vids and was able to create my power efficient-ish first server. got an 11w on i5-12400, 512ssd, m-ATX H610m-hvs m.2 r2.0 512 nvme ssd 32gb non-ecc ram. Cooler Master MWE 400 (old gen version (I incorrectly bought the wrong one so I'm not sure how efficient it is)

[@martin22336]

5:55 😅I do the same doom planing too glad to know am not a lone.

[@oxlydangerfield]

What are your views on encryption for off site backup servers for the same use case (at parents or friends house)? Both in terms of whole disk or on file level (or archives).

[@WolfgangsChannel]

I encrypt my offsite backups, and Borg makes it pretty easy

[@delroyl427]

So now you have backup all the files. How do you index them so they can be searched in the future?

[@viltur83]

interesting video. your cost calculation, is missing cost of average hard-drive failure rate so the NAS will probably end up being more expensive. but with average raise of ALS cost it will probably end up as a win for diy

[@ciaduck]

I always knew you were a kobold in disguise. You can't go "full goblin mode" unless you are one!

[@74357175]

Regarding Nix: An introduction to the flavor of the system, and pros and cons that you have experienced, would be beneficial, even if you don't want to create a full-blown "guide" at this time!

[@CezarLamann]

Hey Wolfgang, how have you been? I think that Asrock is not planning to sell to anyone (regardless of what they said to you in your IMB-X1231 video). Do you know anyone who is selling that board here in EU?

[@argomedoreds]

What about Backblaze B2 for data backup instead of AWS S3?

[@WolfgangsChannel]

Backblaze doesn't have an equivalent storage tier. Storing 14TB of data using their "pay-as-you-go" tier would cost me ~$1000 per year

[@eXsoR65]

Any chance there another alternative Motherboard? None that were suggested are being sold in the US.

[@joel9909]

Your videos are amazing, insightful and annoying at the same time And I love it

[@pfriedel]

And that restore time over the internet should not be scoffed at - I was messing around with recovering my photo and music libraries from backblaze with my most recent hardware upgrade, and while it mostly kind of worked for my music library, I swear macOS looked at the incomplete photo library and went *MINE* and started mucking around with it while it slowly trickled down from BB, leading to an invalid library file. Copying my local backup libraries off my NAS worked fine, though - it came down fast enough that the daemons didn't start performing analysis tasks on them midflight. I'll have to look at borg, though - I was kind of wondering if there was a reasonable way to keep my offsite data encrypted at rest without having to enter a key every time I booted the server.

[@ivanmaglica264]

Hi Wolfgang! Storing the data would cost you 2.1K EUR over 5 years. How much would it cost you to transfer all the data from AWS if you had to transfer all the data back? I hear that this is the kick in the nuts using those kind of services if go over the 100TB territory.