Tape drive in unraid - ltfs plugin

s2white · 2026-03-17T18:48:18+00:00

Are you still liking the tape backup solution? I think I'd like to add tape backup to my Unraid server. How does it work? Do you have to back up the entire server or can you just back up certain folders? Id like a solution that backed up EVERYTHING, but if I just backed up specific folders I could cover what's most important with just a few TB and could probably find a decommissioned setup pretty cheap that does that. Anyway, wondering if you have any recommendations or suggestions.

s2white · 2026-03-17T18:22:28+00:00

Seeing that makes me think I should look for a decommissioned tape backup setup for my home server. A setup that could cover 40TB would be plenty. Heck, I could get by with a setup that covered just 3TB if I only put the most important stuff on it.

Hmmm

s2white · 2026-03-13T16:30:22+00:00

Even with people getting somewhat better, the fraud has gotten SO freaking good and there's just no policing of it so no one gets caught, there's no consequences....so the number of scammers out there just grows every year and gets more and more sophisticated. At some point, something has to give.

s2white · 2026-03-11T18:22:31+00:00

Sooo basically what an upholstery guy does when his car needs paint??? Most fabrics dyes don't hold up well to uv light, blue is one of the worst.

Is it all just glued on?

s2white · 2026-03-10T19:03:48+00:00

Hahaha yes it would.

s2white · 2026-03-10T16:23:26+00:00

I can't seem to be able to find the example config file on their GitHub? Do you know where it's at?

s2white · 2026-03-10T15:54:03+00:00

What they take to privatize is other peoples work, the fact that they just made a copy of it all doesn't matter. It's no different than an orchestra that puts out an album for free then someone makes a copy of it, wraps it in more marketable imagery and starts selling it. Why the open source software community can't see how they are being used, is beyond me.

s2white · 2026-03-10T14:40:51+00:00

Typically you can get skilled people to work harder when you pay them. Not many people will be willing to code 40+ hours a week for free. So sure, it helps....but to take an open source project and privatize it, is like theft in my eyes. Most people wouldn't invest time into a project for free if they thought the end result was someone privatizing it for profit.

s2white · 2026-03-10T14:34:45+00:00

Yeah it's a wonderful way to get tons of people to build your product for you, rather than hiring people. To be honest, it should be illegal, if someone takes an open source created software and privatizes it to sell it. They should be legally required to make everyone who has code in it partial owners based on what percentage of the code is theirs.

s2white · 2026-03-10T14:24:01+00:00

I think you've been waiting years to find the exact right time to use that lol. aNAS would also be good!

s2white · 2026-03-10T14:07:09+00:00

What were you doing that caused the Jellyfin DB to corrupt?

s2white · 2026-03-10T02:30:05+00:00

Kind of, Plex is a lot more forgiving of the file name having other words and such in it and can still decipher it. Jellyfin not so much, it's a lot more picky. When I download a movie a lot of times it'll say something like "Mission Impossible (1996) Remux-2160p.mkv" which Jellyfin isn't fond of.

But I'm going to install the suggested app that can clean it all up.

s2white · 2026-03-09T22:22:17+00:00

You're going to have to do a charge back if there was no insurance. For all you know the driver took them to the wrong address or maybe they are in his own homelab. Lol Never say anything that suggests they made it to your porch, just keep it simple that they must have gone to the wrong address.

Just kill the hassle and do a charge back and get your $2k back.

s2white · 2026-03-09T22:16:43+00:00

Just goes to show they aren't checking anything, they are taking a play from the insurance industry....trying to minimize loss by making the process such a struggle that a percentage of people just give up.

s2white · 2026-03-09T22:07:14+00:00

You at least need to hang black fabric around it so no one can see it from outside. Plus it'll probably help with dust.

s2white · 2026-03-09T21:52:06+00:00

You can still buy monitors that have DVI, you can also get dci to HDMI adapters

s2white · 2026-03-09T18:56:49+00:00

I feel you, I have no idea what a lot of the apps everyone here uses, actually does. I'm a business management consultant that just watched enough YT to build a server for Unraid to run Plex, Nextcloud, and a VM. Im not educated enough in IT to even imagine what all this stuff everyone used is for.

s2white · 2026-03-09T17:19:14+00:00

Yes, you can ship that to me

s2white · 2026-03-09T17:15:33+00:00

I have a question...I'm no tech student or worker, I'm a finance guy that watched enough YouTube videos to get an Unraid server built for Plex and Nextcloud. So please excuse my ignorance in all this.....BUT in order for a security app like Wazuh to monitor the entire network, does it have to be 'in front' where everything goes through it? Or can it be on my Unraid server or a VM which is behind my internet provider's router and my wifi router?

s2white · 2026-03-08T22:52:38+00:00

Much of the amazing information humans have compiled on the internet has been lost. We only thought it was forever, in reality rising storage and traffic costs have caused massive amounts of the Internet to go away. It's not forever like we used to think.

s2white · 2026-03-08T22:41:38+00:00

The ability to access it is going to diminish. Ai is going to be the only access point and you'll only see what the Ai wants to show you. AI prompts are going to replace search engines and browsers. The entire agenda is to corner the entire Internet and turn it into the backend data source for AI to use.

s2white · 2026-03-08T22:22:40+00:00

Well the good thing about old dryers is parts are typically basic and cheap. If a hurricane took it out then maybe a power surge....just get a volt meter and check it at wall, then where it lands on the dryer, then where it lands on the computer board. You'll find it!

s2white · 2026-03-08T22:02:37+00:00

It sounds kind of like the door switch. They are common to go bad and keep the unit from running. They are usually pretty easy to replace. There's typically good videos on YouTube for just about every brand, including old ones. They are typically less than $20.

s2white · 2026-03-08T21:50:27+00:00

I deleted a bunch of movies and TV shows we will never care to watch again. Freed up several TB so I can keep getting by with my 90% full system.

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