Photo editing. As a helping tool for guitar with Guitar Pro and Songsterr and HX edit. I also spend a fair bit of time on my homelab, configuring servers, networks and maintaining my self hosted empire.

All of the “The Rest is…” Podcasts are great that I’ve heard- Entertainment, Football, Politics, Classified, Money.

No Such Thing As a Fish by the QI elves.

The Infinite Monkey Cage

Curious Cases

Just started listening to Darknet Diaries last week. It’s really good, right from ep1.

Not to sound old, but people these days don’t know they’re born.

Affects: TP-Link TL-WR940N router, specifically affecting hardware versions 3 and 4 with all firmware up to the latest version.

Can’t think of anything too outrageous. I have a 24U server rack in my garage which fits with mm perfection under the stairs.

Can’t wait for longer days. Trying a weekly photo challenge, but with a full time job it doesn’t leave much light to use.

Cool, thanks

That’s very cool. Makes planning much simpler.

Does anyone know if its possible to perform a disk replacement in RAIDZ1 without taking a disk out of the array first? E.g. i have a 3 disk raidz1 array and I want to replace a disk before it fails, so first I add the new disk, and have the data sync over it before then pulling the old disk out. So basically the array is never degraded and always has the 1 disk redundancy.

Backups only used blocks. Backup to or from various locations, NFS shares, ftp, WebDAV, ssh server, samba, etc. Encryption of the images, backup of single partitions or whole disks.

If you want to deploy to several machines at once it also has a load of tools for that too.

You 100% want to use Clonezilla for this job. It should be on everyone’s Ventoy stick.

Have you heard of sunlight?

so each new ticket requires destroying and regenerating your workspace.

Now I don’t understand that. Complete your ticket, pull in changes from other and carry on.

What SCM are you using?

Ubuntu Server LTS releases are unbelievably good. They are absolutely solid as a rock. I’ve had several VMs running it for almost a decade with zero issues.

Ubuntu desktop doesn’t suit my use case though,and nor does Gnome.

Who has more chance of a single disk failing today: me with 6 disks, or Backblaze with their 300,000 drives?

Same thing works with 6 vs 2.

Seagate “raw read error rate” is a terrifyingly big number if everything is hunky dory.

They’re in a drafty garage. This time of year I keep them spinning to stop them freezing 🤣

Yeah flat out spinning is definitely better for reliability.

The reason I went RAIDZ2 in my current setup was because of the number of disks increasing the chance of multi failures. But with fewer disks that goes down. I’m not at all worried about data loss, as I said I have good backups so I can always restore. So if the remaining disk dies during a rebuild, that’s unfortunate, but it only affects my uptime, not my data.

So a year ago you spent over 3k on disks?