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Tried to search for ZFS and just hit a lot of different stuff. I'm a senior CS/programmer person, slowly(since quite some time) but steadily floating/flowing/jumping from ms and all their obligatory stuff to a more personal small world. ❤️. Linux & al.
In that smaller world (with FOSS, Lemmy and so on!) I'd love having some sort of hard drive security, where I can chuck in an old drive, or replace another, but, hear me out, change the motherboard controlling all that too.
Today home is a mix of Linux (ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, Dell) Windows (kids playing + the little box for the "windows only" stuff), Mac (Adobe 🥲), and an old old Synology NAS (3TB+2TB backup).
All mixed up on ethernet and WiFi.
I am not going to be able to change this infrastructure very much (cables everywhere already).
Can I set up something so, for example if my ThinkPad crams(drive or mobo or say I just lose the laptop) I can like get it back in working conditions buying another ThinkPad and like switching out a burned out harddrive in a RAID system?
I wonder because Linux seems to separate "your things" and the "os things" very well, but there are obviously lots of other things, can you safeguard those things too?
Cheers to FOSS.
https://mastodon.social/@chromakode/110936177254839251
Oh yes this seems like it, thanks!
That's a great setup. Until someone breaks in and steal all the hardware, of the house burns down.
I would add regular backups from the NAS to an archiving cloud like Backblaze, Amazon Glacier, Azure Archive... Doesn't eat too much bandwidth and it cost very little (until you need to recover the data, but hopefully you won't). :)