[RndTbl] Is there an Muug like community based appetite for alternative to USB3 to Ethernet, to make NAS

[eh at eduardhiebert.com]

Who would not be better served with more back-ups including offsite 
redundancies?

For good reason many of us have our own vehicles, housing, computers...?

However, but a casual read of these exchanges on having one's own NAS is 
clearly not for the faint hearted.  i would also imagine there many 
others who like Trevor are not found of so-called third party cloud 
services with all the risks he articulated.

Wondering what interest there might be in doing another variant on a 
Muug type project but specific to creating a Muug type back-up service 
and mirrored for increased saftey.   One system with huge memory would 
be but a tiny fraction of many of us doing our own.  I'm not suggesting 
our people with know how do this as a labour of love but as a kind of 
community minded coop.

Looking ahead  to security needs, I would however suggest data entry 
security be as tight as access, cause one would not want a 
rip-van-Winkle poison pill virus to be added for potential nefarious 
wake-up if and when ever the back-up was used as a restore and have a 
trogan nested within.

Eduard
On 28/01/2023 3:09 AM, Trevor Cordes wrote:
> People who know me know I *hate* cloud.  If this is the cheapest cloud
> out there, then it's still too much money *if you are a techie who 
> knows
> what they are doing and likes futzing with hardware*.  (For average
> Joes, ya ok.)
> 
> Your 5TB use case would appear to equal $25/mo at this place.  You can
> often find 5TB USB3 drives on blowout for under $100.  So in 4 months
> you're paying more than the DIY backup solution.  The cloud solution
> will cost you that fee *forever*.
> 
> And with the cloud, all your base belong to them (and NSA, and other
> .gov with or without a warrant).  And you must trust they are having
> the appropriate level of redundancy/protection, and it's not just some
> dude with their own external USB3 drive on a Pi!!  Will you bet your
> life on the data being there when you need it?  What's your recourse?
> Almost all places will just refund the fee you paid (if that)... can't
> sue for the value of lost data.
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