Yup, umami was the culprit in my case. Quick update and it’s all running smooth again.

This could explain why my 4C/8T VPS started hitting 100% CPU usage shortly after boot with like next to nothing else running on it.

Can’t argue with that logic. I’ll report to my nearest border crossing if/when this passes to make things easier for everyone.

Really hope for a positive outcome. I would love to go visit my happy place on the Oregon coast again some day!

For real, there really is no way for them to know for sure.

Also, I just remembered Apple has throwaway emails built in now, nobody will think to list those. So do you just go to jail straight away if you miss listing one of those, because you lied on a federal form?

Checks SimpleLogin account… 230 email aliases to date… gg, I might need a few more pages to note all of those.

C+ Endeavour/Cachy?

What an immense list of changes 🤯

Congrats to the team!

But maybe don’t take apart a microwave unless you absolutely know what you are doing. Otherwise, what you find may be shocking.

Fair. I just shudder every time AI is mentioned at work, especially when it’s the boomers talking about it.

I love Ecosia, but it is not AI-free. The results are, for now, but they have AI Chat as well.

That’s fair. Must be nice and cool in there for all your components haha.

Nice and clean. Amazing cable management.

I have to ask, why the giant 4u cases if you have such a minimal set up inside (no dgpu, 4 nvme drives, no hdds)? Did you get a smoking deal on them (I got one that looks to be the same for $50 😎), or just to future proof in case you want to throw 40 hdds in them some day?

Nice! They were definitely killing it back then.

I have a 2TB WD Red from iirc 2013 or 2014 working as my downloads drive. 28,125h (3y 2m). Most of that power on time is in the last year and a half. 0 errors.

I also have a WD Black 1TB from 2009 that has been in gaming PCs, media servers, in an enclosure as an external drive and in my Unraid box. I ran out of ports on my HBA so this grandpa is sitting in a drawer right now, but the power on has to be over 5y. I’ll try to check later.

Ahh ok, that makes sense. Hah magical algorithm.

Yeah it’s about 30TB of photos/videos. I only recently got into videography which takes up a ton of space. About 25% of that is videos converted into an editing codec, but I don’t have those backed up to external drives. I also have some folders excluded that I know have duplicates. A winter project of mine will be to clear out some of the duplicates, and then cull the photos/videos I definitely don’t need. I got into a bad data hoarding habit and kept everything even after selecting the keepers.

I have an in progress folder where I dump everything, then folders by year/month for projects and keepers. I need to do better with culling as I go.

I like that idea, I will incorporate it into my strategy.

Thank you for taking the time to help me out with this, much appreciated!

I didn’t consider that, excellent point. Forgive my ignorance because I’m not certain how the backup systems work, and feel free to ignore this if you don’t know. I presume they compare some metadata or hash of a file against another file and then decide if it’s the same or not to back up? Let’s say I have a file that I have already backed up, and then there is some ransomware that encrypted my files. Would the back up software make a second copy of the file?

So for most of the important files, I just do a sync to an external drive periodically. Basically when I know there have been a lot of changes. For example I went on a trip last year and came back with nearly 2 TBs of photos/videos. After ingesting the files to unRAID, I synced my external drive. Since I haven’t done much with those files since that first sync, I haven’t done the periodic sync since then. But now you’ve opened my eyes that even this could be a problem. How would the G-F-S strategy work in this case?

I thought about zfs or btrfs but my Unraid array is unfortunately xfs and it’s too large at this point to restart from scratch.

Haha that would be a lot of blurays.

I was browsing and came across a zima 232 for same price as a pi 5. Piqued my interest. Reason for thinking to use a pi is because I have a spare 3b and 4 laying around. Mind you it seems every time I want to play with it I have to reinstall the os or get a new SD card because the kit ones die.

Oh that makes sense, yeah that’s cheap. I have a VPS that has 1TB of storage available, so I can easily use that for configs, dbs, etc. That itself doesn’t have backup enabled, but it’s fine for my needs.

Ahh gotcha, I misunderstood that then. I could probably set up a VPN there but don’t want to over complicate it. An always on Pi will be fine I think, they are low power. I could also add a smart switch and set up a schedule or something but I don’t think thats worth the hassle considering the low power usage of a pi.

Hmmm that’s a good point about syncthing backing up corrupt files. I was thinking to use it because I already use it extensively and I wouldn’t need to mess with port forwarding or anything of the sort.

I had multiple copies of files previously as a backup “strategy” and it got way out of hand where I have like 1.5m photos lol. What do you recommend as an alternative to syncthing?

I was thinking about backblaze but the cost would be too high I think, and I have so much spare hardware laying around I may as well use it.