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[1496.46 --> 1501.74] And it's really a process of finding and refining the selection of YouTubers you find |
[1501.74 --> 1502.64] and getting their advice. |
[1503.12 --> 1506.82] I went to a company called AM Solar to have my mobile install done. |
[1506.96 --> 1512.88] And I did that through a process of reading lots of reviews about people's solar installs |
[1512.88 --> 1517.62] and finding forums where people were discussing getting solar installed |
[1517.62 --> 1521.02] and kind of narrowed it down to a few companies. |
[1521.26 --> 1526.30] And then, you know, had my geographic location and they were kind of within my striking distance. |
[1526.30 --> 1531.02] And then I went and looked up pictures of their work, which I think is another really good tip. |
[1531.10 --> 1535.46] If you can find any on their website or on Google Images, I went and found pictures of their work |
[1535.46 --> 1538.12] and thought that, you know, everything looked really good and tidy. |
[1538.26 --> 1540.92] And that was something that was important to me in this installs. |
[1540.96 --> 1543.02] I didn't want it to be just a ball of wires. |
[1543.02 --> 1547.40] I wanted it to look like it was maybe built from the factory that way. |
[1547.78 --> 1549.02] And they did absolutely that. |
[1549.08 --> 1550.62] So that was sort of my process. |
[1551.18 --> 1554.88] I don't know about you, but the more salesy a company is, the less interested I am. |
[1554.88 --> 1557.82] Yeah, and when it comes to that kind of stuff, too, it's easy to get scammed. |
[1557.96 --> 1561.80] So just take your time, you know, get multiple opinions on stuff. |
[1562.20 --> 1564.48] And the other thing is, and this is a very U.S.-centric comment, |
[1564.70 --> 1569.78] but there are some federal tax incentives that tend to expire at the end of each calendar year. |
[1570.08 --> 1576.12] So I noticed the number of texts I was receiving about sign up for solar now in December |
[1576.12 --> 1577.70] was a lot higher than it has been in January. |
[1577.88 --> 1579.56] So just factor that in as well. |
[1579.78 --> 1580.58] So Phil wrote in. |
[1580.64 --> 1582.96] He's a fan of your Perfect Media Guide. |
[1582.96 --> 1584.74] I think it's really helped him a lot. |
[1584.88 --> 1589.70] And he had questions about your VDEV configurations that you're using for the Perfect Media Server. |
[1590.10 --> 1595.56] From what I understand, if you use one disk per VDEV, there is no protection benefit for ZFS. |
[1596.26 --> 1601.96] I'm researching options for setting up a DIY NAS and need to have a cost to bring to the wife |
[1601.96 --> 1603.60] to get the spousal approval. |
[1605.12 --> 1605.68] Yeah, we've been there. |
[1605.92 --> 1610.12] You know, my biggest fear in life is that my wife sells my service for what I told her they cost. |
[1610.12 --> 1614.04] Yes, and I know she's listening to this. |
[1614.12 --> 1614.86] So hello, wife. |
[1614.86 --> 1618.18] I run in a mirror VDEV. |
[1618.50 --> 1619.30] Very, very simple. |
[1619.52 --> 1626.34] I just mirror two drives and that gives me 50%, you know, space efficiency and stuff like that. |
[1626.34 --> 1632.38] So I can sustain one drive failing locally before I need to start resorting to backups. |
[1633.12 --> 1638.12] Standard moment where I say RAID is not a backup and you should never rely on it as such. |
[1638.12 --> 1643.74] I very much look at it as that's my primary source of truth. |
[1644.16 --> 1647.88] But if anything was to go wrong with that server or both of those drives were to fail at once, |
[1648.42 --> 1653.04] I actually have just, you know, I've been using the Helios 64 since the review for this, |
[1653.10 --> 1662.72] but I'm just putting together a new system to act as a local ZFS mirror of the mirror VDEV in my house. |
[1662.72 --> 1667.58] So that will live at the other end of the building in case one end, I don't know, catches fire or something, God forbid. |
[1668.22 --> 1670.44] So the short answer is mirrored VDEV. |
[1670.74 --> 1677.32] And if you can swing it as well, a second copy of the data somewhere else and preferably another copy offsite. |
[1677.56 --> 1679.92] Well, this is right on topic because listener Phil wrote in. |
[1679.98 --> 1684.82] He said, you guys often talk about syncing files offsite for a backup, but I'd like to hear a little bit more detail. |
[1685.20 --> 1689.60] How are you guys protecting your backups from things like ransomware or accidental mass deletion? |
[1689.60 --> 1693.22] In those cases, maybe you're not even aware that something is wrong for months. |
[1693.78 --> 1698.64] I know we do it in the enterprise level, but I'd love your thoughts on using tools for yourself for folks at home. |
[1698.82 --> 1700.12] Thanks and keep up the good work, Phil. |
[1700.74 --> 1701.82] How do you protect your backups? |
[1701.90 --> 1706.36] And I think you might mean encryption and other things like, you know, the whole gamut. |
[1706.98 --> 1709.32] Well, ZFS recently added data set encryption. |
[1709.90 --> 1713.92] So the remote system in my setup isn't encrypted. |
[1714.28 --> 1715.14] It's at my dad's house. |
[1715.20 --> 1716.86] So I do trust that as an endpoint. |
[1716.86 --> 1721.60] But I think that is a valid thing that I want to try and implement moving forward. |
[1721.78 --> 1727.50] But this is one of the primary reasons I run ZFS is snapshot support. |
[1727.50 --> 1738.16] So I can roll back to a specific snapshot, you know, much like the Home Assistant Google Drive plugin that lets me do hourly, daily, weekly, monthly backups. |
[1738.16 --> 1740.64] ZFS lets me do that as well. |
[1740.72 --> 1743.96] And I use Jim Salter's Sanoid tool to configure. |
[1744.78 --> 1747.92] I think I've got like 24 hours worth of hourly backups. |
[1748.12 --> 1750.16] And then I've got a week's worth of daily backups. |
[1750.68 --> 1754.74] And then I've got four weeks worth of backups going back a month. |
[1754.78 --> 1758.76] And then I've got one month backup going back six months, I think. |
[1758.80 --> 1760.52] And then I've got an annual thing as well. |
[1760.52 --> 1762.90] So pretty well covered, I think. |
[1763.38 --> 1770.14] But I don't know how I would spot ransomware other than just going to access a file and be like, oh, crap. |
[1770.58 --> 1773.98] Ransomware I'm not particularly concerned about because it would have to get executed. |
[1774.38 --> 1776.44] And, you know, the server environment's my data setting on. |
[1776.54 --> 1778.08] That's not particularly likely. |
[1778.66 --> 1784.72] Kind of like yourself, I have the NAS here at the studio is kind of like a central repository of truth. |
[1784.72 --> 1789.58] And then JB as a business has several cloud instances of different data sets. |
[1790.08 --> 1792.28] I have my data set personally in Lady Joops. |
[1792.46 --> 1797.02] I sync all of that back to the NAS here at the studio. |
[1797.56 --> 1801.28] I don't have a great backup solution for that NAS. |
[1801.42 --> 1807.60] Now, most of the data on it is actually reproducible by all the other locations if I just brought them all back again. |
[1807.84 --> 1812.84] But now I have a little bit more historical information on there that isn't necessarily duplicated anywhere else. |
[1812.84 --> 1819.06] And I'm starting to change my opinion on backing up my media stuff. |
[1819.06 --> 1822.28] In the past, I always thought, well, I have the source material. |
[1822.74 --> 1826.16] And what I can't find on disk, I could probably find on the Internet. |
[1826.70 --> 1830.20] And I'm OK with that because I've likely paid for it at some point. |
[1830.44 --> 1832.22] So I think I'm OK. |
[1832.34 --> 1835.58] But now I actually have found that that's not necessarily the case. |
[1835.66 --> 1837.70] I've had trouble getting DVDs and Blu-rays. |
[1837.84 --> 1840.96] And I've had trouble finding things online of some series. |
[1840.96 --> 1844.80] So now I'm actually thinking maybe I need to back up absolutely everything. |
[1845.04 --> 1851.16] But that becomes like, you know, a 15 terabyte problem I have to solve. |
[1851.34 --> 1852.32] It becomes a race to the bottom. |
[1852.52 --> 1853.34] Yeah, very quickly. |
[1854.16 --> 1854.34] Yeah. |
[1854.42 --> 1861.24] And there's just I mean, I think the only way would be I need to create like a box that maybe I mean, |
[1861.24 --> 1872.24] maybe it's possible with USB storage if I had the money, if I wanted to invest that kind of money into it and sync it here locally and then take it off site via myself, set it up somewhere off site and sync it up. |
[1872.44 --> 1879.80] That is the solution, you know, is to build a server and stick 100 terabytes in it and just forget about it. |
[1879.80 --> 1880.16] Yeah. |
[1880.88 --> 1882.42] Well, in my case, my parents house. |
[1882.88 --> 1883.80] I could do my dad's. |
[1883.86 --> 1885.40] I could probably even do it at Angela's house. |
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