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  • ikidd@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldBackups of Backups
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    1 day ago

    I couldn’t sleep at night if I didn’t have my data backed up in 6 different places. I spent way too many years as a sysadmin to deal with 2 backups.

    ZFS mirrors on my Proxmox server with multiple nodes replicating to each other. Replications of those datasets to zfs.rent. Proxmox backup server taking hourly snapshots and doing it to multiple drives. Rotating USB drives on that PBS server. Backups of the data for each VM and each docker container stack via rsync. Borg backup. Multiple Nextcloud clients with each having their file syncs held locally, then rsynced to a secondary drive.

    I could probably come up with a couple more that I’ve forgotten I have running. I got burned once and it made me mad.


  • It pisses me off that because cities grew up where agriculture worked best that cities are on the best farmland in their areas. But the amount of land it takes to efficiently grow crops is many, many times what the cities have available even being ridiculously utopian about what can become available with schemes like “get rid of vehicles”.

    On top of all that, the energy it takes to use grow lights for millions of acres of hydroponics would make AI datacenters look like power misers, and then you have to find people that would actually want to work in them. Farmers today can’t even charge enough to give people a living wage picking strawberries when there’s no added costs like that, and cry when their undocumented quasi-slave labor gets shipped back to Mexico. How’s all that going to work?

    The key is to genetically modify people to have chlorophyll skin; it would be more likely to come true.