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Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by dustymcp »

vero2 wrote: post #318
jdhendrickson wrote: post #56

Mea Culpa I'm in the industry. I knew we should have had backups. She is brilliant but not technical and while the backups would have been expensive and difficult due to size, I should have built multiple NAS and distributed them geographically and used Syncthing to keep them updated. To be clear we were legacy G-suite users and have converted to paying customers, so it was a free service while this happened, and is…

> multiple NAS and distributed them geographically and used Syncthing to keep them updated As some one working in storage, please do not get tons of NAS they are pain to manage eventually. Example: linus-tech-tips could not do it properly. If you use youtube-dl how large is one video? Lets say 2 GB. I presume, every week you create have 2 videos? Then 4GB per week. Google gives you $20 for 100 GB. Every year create a…

Wouldnt this be against the TOS and then get another strike?

Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by kalleboo »

vero2 wrote: post #318
jdhendrickson wrote: post #56

Mea Culpa I'm in the industry. I knew we should have had backups. She is brilliant but not technical and while the backups would have been expensive and difficult due to size, I should have built multiple NAS and distributed them geographically and used Syncthing to keep them updated. To be clear we were legacy G-suite users and have converted to paying customers, so it was a free service while this happened, and is…

> multiple NAS and distributed them geographically and used Syncthing to keep them updated As some one working in storage, please do not get tons of NAS they are pain to manage eventually. Example: linus-tech-tips could not do it properly. If you use youtube-dl how large is one video? Lets say 2 GB. I presume, every week you create have 2 videos? Then 4GB per week. Google gives you $20 for 100 GB. Every year create a…

Linus Tech Tips built and installed a custom ZFSonLinux server, which I'd also not suggest OP does.

The difficulty in managing a NAS is completely different if you buy two off-the-shelf Synology boxes and log in and point-and-click turn on snapshot sync between the two and create an Amazon Glacier backup task.

Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by Too »

kc10 wrote: post #241

This is extremely concerning. I have several of my daughter's childhood videos on YT as private videos and several hundreds of GBs of pictures in Google photos. And I literally don't have any backup for all this content. I previously used external drives, but I moved them to the cloud so they are easily accessible and not have the risk of hardware failures. I guess not a good idea to just rely on cloud providers for…

Use the 321 rule. 3 backups, 2 different media, 1 of them off site.

You should keep your external drive backups. “Cloud” gives you the off site, but by itself from the point of a user it is just 1 media and 1 backup. Even if they likely have a lot more internally.

Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by unosama »

mro_name wrote: post #332

> This content was incredibly time intensive to create why did she trash the origins? And please, do indieweb.org/POSSE - look at PeerTube and maybe distribute copies via YT but never exclusively or even rely on them as an archive. Please.

What is indieweb.net? The link is just squatted for me

Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by mro_name »

unosama wrote: post #336
mro_name wrote: post #332

> This content was incredibly time intensive to create why did she trash the origins? And please, do indieweb.org/POSSE - look at PeerTube and maybe distribute copies via YT but never exclusively or even rely on them as an archive. Please.

What is indieweb.net? The link is just squatted for me

Thx, stupid me, it's indieweb.org/POSSE. Fixed above, too.

Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by iforgotpassword »

WalterBright wrote: post #258
jdhendrickson wrote: post #56

Mea Culpa I'm in the industry. I knew we should have had backups. She is brilliant but not technical and while the backups would have been expensive and difficult due to size, I should have built multiple NAS and distributed them geographically and used Syncthing to keep them updated. To be clear we were legacy G-suite users and have converted to paying customers, so it was a free service while this happened, and is…

You can buy 16 terabyte drives for $300 or so. Cost shouldn't be a problem to back up your videos.

I second this. I can't fathom that on HN of all sites people recommend renting backup space from the same big tech companies that continuously fuck over people. Setting up a NAS is not magic. Setting up two isn't either. Put one in you parents basement and check on it once every year when you visit for Christmas. If you don't need 16TB go with an SSD (although with the current contamination situation not the best timing to buy flash).

Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by unosama »

sireat wrote: post #307

This is extremely concerning. I also have over 500 unlisted training videos - seen by average of 10-30 people each. Most are boring IntelliJ or VS Code screencasts. However some contain small outtakes from other Youtube videos - this could potentially trigger a strike. SSD holding originals died without warning. Time to download everything and invest into archive grade Blu-ray or LTO tapes.

You can also mirror them to other video services... One of the new ones will do it for you automatically. Odysee.com I believe.
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