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Absolutely, the backend federation protocol I personally think is great (though I question the scalability of a lot of the existing backend implementations). With some extra discovery services that help connect you to different instances, I think that would really help with some of the challenges I’ve personally see people run into
30 TB this makes much more sense to build a NAS vs use the cloud, but a very important point: the second NAS should not be in the same location (long term) as the first.