I know that making networks out of duct tape and bubblegum is a point of pride in the Linux community, but if you have to store vital data, wouldn’t a nice hardware NAS and a RAID array be a better solution?
How about an external HDD plugged into the Pi? Even a usb stick is better than writing it to the microsd card.
My brain didn’t even register that the meme was about NAS data residing on the SD card. I automatically assumed it’s on attached disks and was about to snark-reply about keeping a cloned SD card taped to the Pi case for such occasions.
Remote mount datacenter storage pools or go home. If you have physical room for your disks in your house, you need to go bigger.
Funny. My WD nas runs linux and the support ended so i’ve had to upgrade myself with entware… and it’s old, so the fan was sized for cooler hard drives, so I cut a hole in the top and screwed on another fan… and WD removed NFS support years ago, so I just mount my shares oversshfs… and i’m currently upping my local security so it’s only accessible over wireguard… honestly, I have no idea what it’s doing with the hardware raid and the way it mounts drives so i’m tempted to switch over to mergerfs and snapraid…
Basically my legit consumer hardware raid nas is more duct tape and bubblegum than my home built linux nas. Then again, it’s easily a decade past its anticipated useful life too.
I guess it is a point of pride.
Backups people backups. You don’t realize how much you want them until it’s too late to make them.
Raid 0 right? I heard the number stands for how much risk there is of losing data.
How do I make a backup of my pi and all its settings? I set everything up following guides and am not great with Linux. Is there a way to make like a full clone, so I can just copy paste into a new pi in case?
https://raspibackup.linux-tips-and-tricks.de/en/home/
This tool is incredible
Also remember to backup before things break. I once diligently backed up a system image before an upgrade. But I backed up a already failed SD card.
and if possible, keep some backups in a separate physical location. House fires or break-ins aren’t all that uncommon.
If you must use an SD card: use log2ram. Greatly reduces the number of IO operations to the card and prolongs its life.
LPT: pies since at least the 3b can boot from USB.
I’ve never relayed to a meme more. I moved my UPS to my work computer after that one failed and three days later, I lost power. Spent five hours fixing a corrupted SD card then reconfiguring my Pi-Hole and HomeBridge.
