The backing database type and the storage it runs on are just as important too.

Welcome to the world of VPNs.

Anything I truly care about losing is in at least two locations. It’s like a total of a few hundred gigs. 95% of the content I have I can reacquire in like a week.

After 5 years I got laid off and had to rebuild mine, using a template from a “professional” that I hired like 7-9 years ago. I’ll definitely use this to update mine!

Whoa, just when I thought I had completed my setup haha

After using Nginx for almost a decade, Caddy is pretty damn awesome regarding how simple it is. I don’t need 8-10 lines of code to setup an SSL secured reverse proxy, I need three.

If you want to use a cloud provider, then your main problem will be uploading this much data and then downloading it back again, both price and time wise.

If you happen to have a symmetric gig pipe (or larger) that definitely helps :) I currently have 27 TBs in the cloud, for most of it, it was just easier to re-download it since the cloud VM had a 10 gig pipe compared to my gig down and 30 Mbps up (cries in Comcast…I moved and now I have access to AT&T fiber at up to 5 Gbps, its like $250/month though). I thnk I’m gonna move everything back locally, doing everything in the cloud was a temporary solution for when I lived with my parents for a few months. They weren’t too happy about the electricity bill of my 15 HDD, 8 NVME drive, 2x10G nic, 128 GB ECC, 1KW PSU running a Threadripper 2970wx, liquid cooled of course …and then having the AC running 24/7 to keep i cool. I had all of that crammed in a 4U server, which was pared down from my larger on which I was using at my other apartment.

with could storage I find I’m able to download large files from the webUI, but I could attach the bucket and just get the data from here.

I have like 7tb of data on my current raid array, and in the future, I plan to wipe it and make it ZFS, with 3 additional 7tb drives. I’d like to not lose all the data. I’m sure I can’t be the only one who has this issue. What do you guys use for temporary backup solution, while repurposing your HW.

Realize I have no way to backup 10s of TBs, cry, destroy my ZFS pool and start over. 90% of my stuff is media which I can easily reacquire from Usenet in about 1.5-2 weeks of 24/7 downloading. So, not really a hassle, it just takes forever.

If you have good upload bandwidth (like if you’re on fiber and have a 1 gig upload) IDriveE2.com has pretty reasonable pricing, it’s object storage (think S3) not block storage (any normal filesystem) though, but if you’re just using it for a backup that shouldn’t matter. I apparently got in right before they doubled their prices and got 50 TB for a year for $500. They have “on demand pricing” which is more expensive than their yearly plans, but it’s currently $4/TB/month so that would only cost you like $30…assuming you can upload all your data to their servers.

You’re using TrueNAS SCALE, that’s why hahaha

I love the idea of SCALE but IMO it falls flat, I had tons of issues with it when I used it for about 6 months about a year or so ago, and I had been using the BSD version on and off since FreeNAS 9.3 so I’m no noob.

IMO it’s just easier to run a Linux distro like Arch (my choice, of course) with OpenZFS unless you have a bunch of drives, then using the CLI for management becomes very cumbersome. I was managing 22 HDDs and 8 NVME drives via the CLI and it’s a nightmare. TrueNAS does have that buttoned down.

Finally someone has made a nice GUI for ZFS management, it’s called Poolsman and it’s a plugin for Cockpit, it offers basic ZFS management which is pretty much all I need. The downside is that it’s currently closed source software and costs you $60 per year Per PC. Their development is also pretty slow. I bought it 10 months ago and they finally just added in support for creating ZFS pools about a month or two ago.