Building a 26TB Offsite Backup Server! ft. Tailscale

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00:00 Intro
01:24 How do you back up video files?
03:22 Where did the idea come from?
04:12 The build (hardware)
08:46 Remote management
09:56 Cooling and other caveates
11:48 Software
15:31 Tailscale
17:30 Emergency remote access
18:12 Backup job
18:55 Photo galery and backups
19:38 Cost breakdown vs. S3
21:30 Other considerations
23:06 Outro

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[HardwareHaven]

God, the fumbling of lines is so.... so... true.

Also, I don't know who in their right mind would think you stole the idea from me?? CLEARLY you're backing things up to YOUR parents' house. Duh.

[wstrake]

The whole deadpan "I didn't steal the idea from Hardware Haven because I'm backing up to MY parents' house, not his parents' house" joke got an INSTANT like and subscribe out of me.

[JeffGeerling]

0:33 what!? I *never* reuse any clips! Ha.

[uh_niece]

I think there should be a crossover episode where you shows up to Colton's Parent's house and attempts to install your backup NAS

[porcuzburator]

The intro about the viewers' protests put a smile on my face!
No protest from this viewer! I learned a lot and reduced my home lab power consumption a bunch thanks to you! You have my appreciation!

[Mr____Muffin]

Wolfgang is the YouTuber that I'll always drop everything just to watch his videos, they're entertaining and extremely helpful with networking in general.

[TrionicSeven]

As a developer on the Immich team, I'm happy to see it mentioned here :)

[astrocactus]

Depending if your relationship with your parents this part might end up being a minus.
Love it

[xsmn]

I tried backing up to AWS Glacier a while ago. I have about 20TB of data, and used rclone to encrypt data before uploading. Every time rclone ran, it had to compare the local files with the remote files to see which had to be copied. This produced API costs on AWS. Additionally, if I’d delete a file locally I would get punishment cost on AWS because I’d delete files too soon. With all these additional costs I had around 250$/month for 20TB on AWS, which makes AWS why more expensive than an offsite NAS at your parents :)

[PandaMoniumHUN]

Whenever you mention Glacier you should also mention that retrieval is dog slow (even if your internet is fast), and you'll be paying for every gigabyte that you download. That $70 retrieval fee looks nice on paper, until you realize it's only the request fee to start retrieving your data. You'll be paying a data transfer fee at ~$0.1/GB on top of it during download, so in total you'll get your 14TB of data for roughly $1500. Never recommend Glacier to anyone, unless they really, really have no other option.

[cpn]

Wolfgang's "hey, it works" channel

[labbiee]

You have no idea how helpful this was, I'm currently making an offsite backup server and needed software suggestions! I had done some research but now I have to try borg!

[thiagoassisfernandes]

dang, didn't expect the nixos bit!

just made my media server with nixos as well, and i've been loving it

can't wait for your vid about it

[bne]

I never knew you were based in Hamburg! The train station footage used sent me on a little investigative journey. I'll definitely say hi if I ever run into you. This channel has been super useful as far back as the ThinkPad CPU upgrade videos

[Fabian-_-]

Wooo, NixOS, nice!
All my servers, desktops and laptops run NixOS and it's awesome! Aswell as tailscale, just makes networking sooo easy and can be self hosted thx to Headscale :D

[dotcaodin]

Thank you so much for this video! It's priceless, all the tools mentioned, the setup, and the clues you gave.
Keep up your good job!

[NigelBassman]

Wolfgang, your previous video came at just the moment I was looking at multi-TB backup solutions, so after reviewing other options I built it with a similar config. (The case is a really nice solution.) While waiting for this video I researched and decided on Unraid and have been very happy with it for a relative newbie in this space. Then just as I’ve been looking at my on-site-but-off-site (house and separate office/workshop buildings) backup options for my NAS this one drops. I won’t need much of your config, but some of the software I’ll definitely check out. Thank you.

[PandaMoniumHUN]

Ah, Wolfgang's "how I put multiple fire hazards packaged into a computer at my parent's house".

[Mikesco]

This has probably been one of the best videos in this category that I've seen so far.
I love how not only you put together an awesome well thought out solution that is doable by a lot of common folk. But you also leave a treasure trove of information for us to research and dig into.
I eagerly wait for more or your videos!