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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Just know that this is a step forward in the direction of making it technically possible to force people to usw the app.

    I disagree. There is nothing stopping that as it is. What this really does is remove one more level of control from the end user on their device.

    Ask yourself if you trust them to not try and profit from this.

    Im not sure what you are getting at here. Of course i don’t trust “them”. Nor do i trust any corp. It’s those reasons among others why i have completely removed google from my computing life and almost exclusively use open source software as well as self host functionally all network services.






  • If the total data is 3tb and you want disk failure protection I would take your two 6tb disks and put them in a mirror. With the amount of data you have and the drive sizes at your disposal that makes the most sense. This leaves you with 3tb free for growth. If you wanted an additional backup I would recommend storing it in a different location entirely or pay a cloud provider like Backblaze.

    I would do this with ZFS but you can also do this via LVM or just straight md-raid/mdadm. I’m not sure what your issues are with zfs on popos but they should be resolvable as Ubuntu supports zfs fine to my knowledge.

    An alternative you could consider is using mergersfs to logically pool indivial filesystems on each of the disks and then use SnapRAID to provider some level of protection. You’ll have to look into that further if interests you as I don’t have to much info in my head related to that solution. Its not as safe as a mirror but its better than nothing.


  • Your title is about backups but your question seems mostly just about how to set up your storage for backups.

    You can go about pooling disks in a few ways but you first need to define what level of protection from failure you want. Before going further though, how much space do you project that you will need for backups?






  • There are 0 solutions in a reverse proxy if it is not capable of absorbing the amount of traffic required to maintain service while under a ddos attack. How exactly does a reverse proxy do anything to protect from a ddos?

    Edit: I see perhaps I misinterpreted this. Sure, there are other ddos protection services but if you are under attack RIGHT NOW and your critical services are down are you going to shop around for alternatives that aren’t Cloudflare or are you just going to go straight to the thing you know will do exactly what you need with a proven track record of doing it?

    Going to CF is entirely understandable and they said that once the dust settles they will be looking at alternatives for the future that is not CF.

    I’m far from a CF shill. I believe they do more longer term harm than their short term “good” has done. From an ops perspective though this action was very reasonable.






  • My main point is that it is seemingly impossible to tell what Microsoft has and has not shit listed because may operate their own internal list which isn’t published.

    I’m somewhat of the opinion though that more people should self host email and try to be a thorn in the side of these corps implementing arbitrary rules. If more people aren’t receiving email more reports about I will be generated and that will hopefully result in more people like us getting our email successfully delivered.