Hello Storj-Team, Linus from Linus Tech Tips just released a new video on YouTube about his data loss. I know that this is more related to his local hardware/configuration but since he is storing TB of data, Storj could be an option for him… Did someone ever contact him and offer a storage soluti…

After watching the video… Why in the world did they have all the old data, which was hardly ever accessed, sitting on live drives? The video itself seems like a giant ad for the new 20TB drives for the new server. Tape drives are probably not a good idea for long term backup, since the magnetic ta…

Regarding your first point Linus always states that they use parts of old videos for the production new ones. So that might explain it. The mentioning about the 20 TB drives is for me just a side note. Independent of the reasons for this video I still think it’s worth a shot for the storj marketin…

I use smaller radz2 vdevs. And auto-scrub every month. On the other hand, this reminds me that it has been a while since I backed up my file server to tape. Probably as good time as any to do it and finally figure out how to do incremental backups.

[image] Pentium100: since I backed up my file server to tape Obligatory link to the Council on Library & Information Resources… Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling: A Guide for Libraries and Archives: https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub54/

Saw the video and it made me cringe so much. Just like last time when they lost data on their active projects. They basically have no precautions in place for when things go wrong. In this case they have 7 problematic drives which apparently didn’t set off any alarm bells. Last time they used RAID5…

Storj would probably be a bit expensive for backups. As they said, the data was “nice to have” and an excuse to build big file servers. Now they get to try data recovery from zfs and then will probably monitor the disks. They don’t have a dedicated I guy, because everyone can do the job, but that m…

Well sure, but would you ever set up a server with raidz2 vdevs without setting up monitoring? I would say it’s pretty clear that the person who set that up in the first place dropped the ball here. Especially considering that they knew there wouldn’t be a backup. I can understand not having backup…

[image] BrightSilence: Well sure, but would you ever set up a server with raidz2 vdevs without setting up monitoring? I can imagine circumstances where this could happen, yes. Also, we have to admit that they are not professional admins. Probably nobody even though about monitoring it. [i…

[image] Pentium100: I can imagine circumstances where this could happen, yes. Also, we have to admit that they are not professional admins. Well sure, I grant you that. But if that’s the only reason I really don’t understand how after having previously had pretty disastrous effects from being…

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