That’s amazing. I would love to see the algorithm for that. Hopefully I’ll find a nice explainer if I search around.

There’s a tale from long ago where someone set up a CD drive tray so that opening it would tap the reset button on a server.

Guardrails are absolutely not a reason why people prefer the CLI. We want the guardrails off so we can go faster.

So peculiar how it was easy to attract customers by having a single streaming service with plenty of content, a sane price, and no ads; and yet it is difficult to attract customers by having dozens of services with minimal content, inflating subscriptions, and also ads. Why are customers so hard to understand?

The real challenge to creative economies are the billionaires sucking all the profit from album sales or deleting television shows from the face of the earth for a tax writeoff.

Yes, I do see that. I’m definitely getting answers to a question I didn’t intend. I was hoping for more of an rsync but that something which also provides viewing and incremental backups to an offsite. I don’t know how to phrase that, and perhaps for what I want it makes more sense to have rsync/rclone to copy files around and something else to view.

How was it setting up and running Nextcloud? I’m very curious about their office software, looks fun.

This is really cool. I ended up trying something similar: serving from a ZFS pool with SeaweedFS. TBD if that’s going to work for me long term.

I would definitely be able to manually sync the SeaweedFS files with rsync to another location but from what I see it requires me to use their software to make sense of any structure. I might be able to mount it and sync that way, hopefully performance for that is not too bad.

Syncing like that and having more control over where the files are placed on the RAID is very cool.

Protection against if it happens and they have not noticed within those few days. Probably especially important if they leave the system running while on vacation.

“Local” as in the machine I am using to work on, which has a 256 GB SSD. Not as in “on-site” and “off-site.”

Yeah it’s hard to find something that perfectly fits just what you want. I think it’s better if I do something simple like ZFS and maybe some kind of file server on top.

Do a riffle shuffle to make them even more secure!

“Incremental” sounds right. I want it to act like rsync without deleting files on the destination, so all the folders are merged. (It would be cool if it kept versions but I don’t absolutely need that.) Tools like Borg or Restic look great, but I have been searching to see if they support this kind of usage and they seem not to.

Do you have a software you like for that?

I want like one local device to have a full copy, but the devices writing new data into that one do not need a full copy.

I was looking at Borg but that’s one of the tools where it seems like I need the entire replicated copy of the dataset locally to add more. I believe Borg can open a view into previous versions of the data, so it’s technically append only, but I’d find that process tedious.

These are a couple TB and mostly photos I’ve taken. I’d like to be able to browse and edit at some point, but my primary concern right now is keeping a copy of everything.

That’s top of my list for moving the files if I do an S3 or WebDAV backend. I’m overthinking this, aren’t I? Just find a WebDAV server, set it up, use rclone to append files and pretty much everything else will be able to browse.

This would be self-hosted and local, one of the locations in a 3-2-1 strategy. BackBlaze would work for an offsite but I already have that portion covered.

I read a 2021 Ars Technica article on BTRFS and it was extensively critical, to put it mildly. Have things changed since then? I’m down with LXD or Incus but I don’t know if that’s the file system for me.

That’s poetry