141–144 of 144 posts
Moved it to cloud. That's also scary. Anybody knowing your email can lock you.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I trust major cloud providers like Google or Microsoft to protect my data far more than I'd ever trust a bunch of retail hardware I plugged together and configured myself. They have entire gigantic teams of employees dedicated to security and privacy and protection from threats. I couldn't replicate that even if I wanted to. If someone wants to steal and leak your sensitive data, they'll have a much easier time getti…
They don't give a shit about your data though. There are lots of horror stories of people losing all of their photo's of the past decade(s) because Google decided to block their account with place to get in touch with them and now way to restore anything. Tech companies aren't your friend, they are faceless corporations with nice services. When they fail you though, they fail you big time, unless you have solid back-…
Every good backup practitioner has an origin story. That one time they lost data to a clicking HDD, or to a scratched CD, or to a typo. The pain of never getting that data back. Galvanizing pain that catalyzed a resolution never to lose data again. Never trust someone (including yourself) to truly look after your data unless they know this pain first hand.
> These tools work really great, until they don't! Huh? Whats the problem? How is ZFS any different because its lower level? > ZFS without ECC memory is no worse than any other file system without ECC memory. You really do need ECC memory unless you are ok with your pool becoming corrupt every 6 months or so. Im just saying this from my experience of running a ZFS server without ECC, the data wasn't critical so I lef…
I stored 2tb of actively used data on zfs without ecc ram from freebsd 8 to 12. I had no noticeable corruption. I only post this because there is a weird assumption that not using ecc ram is a death sentence for your zfs data. I use ecc ram now and I think it's the proper way to do zfs, but let's not pretend you forfeit your data by not using ecc.
2tb is not a lot of data you would need to fill the drive 4 times a day before you would get close to hitting the single bit error rate, a pool of my size is guaranteed to hit that error rate just because of the volume of data.
If we are talking about running zfs on a desktop then yea you are right you don't need ECC, but if you are running a storage server for data you want to keep then you absolutely do.