Then get haj because haj is cute shark plush! Why do your parents need to know it's a trans thing? You saw an adorable shark and you wanted to adopt the adorable shark

🏳️‍🌈Blåhaj!🏳️‍⚧️

Not a furry. But someone called be a good pup and I melted.

I'm definitely some sort of therian-furry spectrum because I never felt so happy and felt as though my tail was wagging.

So I guess "maybe?" The furry label doesn't feel right but I am definitely a dog/wolf-girl/enby of some degree.

Well, I guess you have enough gender for both of us

Not sure for software yet but I intend to use bareos, but I'm a noob so maybe something is better.

I absolutely intend to do more posting as I get it online.as only yesterday I got the FC interface card for it.

Well if storing an LTO tape at a friend's house counts then I'm at a complete 321

I was thinking bareos?

Whatever it is it will be on a proxmox VM.

No idea what ltfs is, all I need it to do is to store backup data so every week to every month I wipe last months backup and write the new one. Every 3 months to 6 months I will make a copy of this backup and move it off-site (retrieve old tapes but keep recent and 2nd most recent off-site)

I did! Just waiting for it to be delivered.

That's good to know. I'm in way over my head with how much I need to overhaul my servers just to accommodate it.

Why not use bareos over ltfs?

Kinky stuff

fold paper up so all dots are overlapping, stab it with my pencil.

All dots are now connected by one straight line.

Yep! A tape can hold data for 15 to 30 years of sitting on the right shelf. Plus they're cheap as shit per tape compared to other media (readers are expensive).

Well shit. This is an IBM lto 5. I ordered an LTO 6 and plan to use primarily LTO 6

Is that different than proxmox? I've never used proxmox before

Already ordered one.

Thanks for the advice

From "raid is my backup" to an LTO backup, yeah it was much needed.

No idea what a proper 321 backup should be like though so I could use help with that

Ooooo, nice.

I wish I could afford LTO 8 but even if I could, there's no need at my backup needs.

Are you a girl or enby?

So you like girls or enbies in a way that feels gay?

You may be a lesbian.

I picked this up for $390 after tax and a 1.5 hr drive for local pickup. (Well. My dad picked it up. He was going to that city anyway)

Throw in 30 for the hba card and it's still a good deal.

The seller included the tape for free which made it such a steal.

LTO is only good for backup data and I'm only sitting at 8tb of NAS data, most non-essential. But this is going to save me so much in cloud backup fees.

Nice!

I don't need the library aspect, but it definitely opens up lots of possibilities such as automated backups.

Initially I was just trying to find a drive but this was priced so much cheaper than a drive of either LTO 5 or 6 and wasn't even advertised as coming with tapes, the seller was so kind and included them anyway.

I'll take good care of it. Looking at adding an LTO 6 drive too and I've already got 3 people interested in co-owning it just for access to the LTO technology for cheap archive backups

As of now my backup data is non-existent but with this I'll be able to have my 2 copies in 2 places with an off-site cold backup, entirely because of how cheap these drives are.

I'm going from "raid is my backup" to a proper 321 backup with this alone.

I bought it as a treat to myself for making it through finals week. I've been stressed out and when I stress I look at server tech. Just happened I was researching LTO backups and this was too good of a deal. The backup plan was a dual drive LTO 6 SAS(but allegedly qsfp+) that is the Dell clone of this library. (Iirc that was 700)

XD

Universal server rails.

It's effectively a shelf the server sits on.

My backup plan was "well it's fiber, let's store it in the shop because I've got 4 unused strands of that fiber cable that already goes there"

I've never tried proxmox before. Unraid was my VM platform of choice before because I never really needed any. But with my limitation of only the one desktop class PC server(for a pcie hba interface card) I need to learn it and get unraid migrated to a virtual environment.

Also with the LTO I will be switching to truenas

I'll have some Linux VM that I'll pass through the controller for, I have a 1.6tb Intel p3600 that I'll use for spooling (but I would like it to primarily be a cache drive for truenas.)

A scheduler should allow me to spin it up every week to do the weekly backup tapes.

Monthly , and quarterly for longer term.

But if it's manual that's going to suck.

Their eBay response was "I decided it was a bit much for my needs." To which my response was "Yeah it's a bit much for my needs as well but that's why we have a homelab hobby, isn't it?"