And while more drives means more failure opportunity, it also means when a failed drive is replaced, it’s likely of a different manufacture period.
I have a 5-drive NAS that I’ve been upgrading single drives every 6 months. This has the benefit of slowly increasing capacity while also ensuring drives are of different ages so less likely to fail simultaneously. (Now I’m waiting for prices to come back down, dammit).
I’ve never run into issues running desktop hardware without ECC as servers - since the 90’s.
I just don’t think the extra cost is worthwhile - I’m not running systems/services that will have catastrophic failures without ECC (or have weird bitflips that would corrupt some transaction).
Yea, that’s a challenging part for sure, one that I still deal with.
It can be done, but you need to configure the sync jobs “just so”. Send only from the phone, don’t sync deletions, etc.
In the past I’ve setup a master folder on my phone and used subfolders for “upload only” Syncthing shares. Then wherever I put a file on my phone it gets synced to the appropriate folder on my server.
Does it have to be SFTP?
I use both Syncthing and Resiliosync - both are better on battery than conventional file transfer mechanisms, and they don’t require babysitting. They simply sync files as you define.
Alternatively if you must have FTP/SFTP, I have used FolderSync (Play store or Apk Mirror) since about 2010 - I’ve even bought it twice because it’s such a great app. Though I haven’t upgraded in a while because I don’t like the new UI.
The free version does pretty much everything the paid version does, and the devs have always been great.
But I’d use Syncthing, you can even set it to only sync on your wifi and while charging, though I’ve found even syncing a few gigs doesn’t impact my battery (I probably sync 10GB a day while on battery).
Even without a VPS Tailscale will work fine after the router resets.
The more open ports, the larger the attack surface.
That’s all.
And today with the script kiddies out there, port scans happen all the time.
I’ve had a consumer router become almost useless from all the attempted connections on an open port someone found that I had up for a week.
Months later I’d still get hits on that port though it had been closed.
Yea, Tailscale would work even if the router was fully reset.
Without a secondary internet connection this isn’t possible.
The router is the connection - its the gateway (a term we don’t hear much these days).
You could setup an independent connection via a cell modem - becoming a secondary connection. This is common for remote locations or even small businesses that need a failover just for management.
You could even have it on a single machine and have a vpn there. Then you could RDP/VNC to that one machine and manage things from there. I’ve done the VPN this way with Tailscale. One machine has it (I’ve even done it with a Raspberry Pi), then you can RDP/VNC to other machines from there.
But there’s not much I could see you doing if the gateway is down anyway.
Its not “targeted at old school”, it’s an open, extensible protocol.
If devs focused on extending the protocol instead of building an app to handle things like this, it could do it, everywhere.
There are currently over 100 extensions.
PWA app only is a big no sale.
As much as I dislike dedicated apps for things that don’t need it, THIS is something that needs it.
Still staggering to me that XMPP isn’t the default, since it was used in many chat apps in the late 90’s.
I can’t remember the name of an excel spreadsheet I created years ago, which has continually matured with lots of changes. I often have to search for it of the many I have for different purposes.
Trusting your memory is a naive, amateur approach.
Its spec’d for that
I dunno, my newest cable modem chews up a boatload of power for no good reason - really pisses me off.
It uses more power (50w) than my 2019 SFF desktop I run as a server, with an 8TB drive (20w).
I know because they both sit on their own smart switches.
Better yet, LemmyShemmy should ask his mom - no reason to do his work for him
Why would I?
I use a mesh vpn to manage my servers otherwise, what’s the difference?
Hell I RDP to them all the time (or SSH) - if anything it’s providing another layer of encryption.
I’ve re-read the docs around VirtualBox bridging, and the only thing that I think could possibly cause this (though it shouldn’t since ping is a direct address to a specific IP/mac) is to enable Promiscuous mode (as cappucino mentioned).
This shouldn’t fix it in my opinion, but it may, since ICMP could be considered undirected traffic (I don’t, but I didn’t code VirtualBox).
I’ve sometimes found using trace instead of ping can sometimes work where pings would be blocked, plus trace shows exactly where it dies along the path.
Such a great point.
I’ve refused to use software that require things like Discord or Telegram for support.
Use a proper tool on your website.
1.2 TB is a shitload
That’s about 1/8 my current total storage - in today’s drive costs that’s about $40 for just primary storage, and then 2x - 3x that for backup storage.
Others have mentioned power - you may want to do some math on drive cost vs power consumption. There’ll be a drive size point that is worth the cost because you’ll use fewer drives which consume less power than more drives.
Having built a number of systems, I’m a LOT more conscious of power draw today for things that will run 24/7. Like my ancient NAS draws about 15 watts at idle with 5 drives (It will spin down drives).
More drives will always mean more power, so maybe fewer but larger drives makes sense. You may pay more up front, but monthly power costs never go away.
Also, I’ve built a 10 drive n NAS like this (because I had the drives and the case, mono and ram). It can produce a lot if heat while doing anything, and it was a significant power hog - like 200w when running. And it really didn’t idle very well (I’ve run it with UnRaid, TruNAS and Proxmox).