Re:Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
by timc3 on Sunday February 20, 2022 @03:40AM
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Linus tech tips are not exactly professionals though they have learnt a bit over the years, but it is why they mess up all the time. It makes it amusing for me, but their advice is often worst practice.
NAS is fine if you know what you are doing, cloud storage (S3, GCS, B2) is probably best though.
Re:Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
by Freak_NL on Sunday February 20, 2022 @03:37AM
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Recommending Google as a backup in case Google decides to delete your videos sounds a bit suboptimal. Go with hosted backup; sure, for this use case that makes sense. But do so with a different company.
Re:Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
by vero2 on Sunday February 20, 2022 @03:45AM
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acquiring talent to manage google drive is easy. Not cheap or easy for Amazon/B2.
Re:Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
by throwuxiytayq on Sunday February 20, 2022 @04:45AM
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Please note that Google are perfectly happy to ban all of your accounts simultaneously. And your neighbors' accounts, apparently.
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/ckoej1/googles_...
Re:Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
by vero2 on Sunday February 20, 2022 @04:56AM
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Note that in 7 years OP had one problem now... I know people with local NAS one need to do maintenance and so on. Again, depends on your technical ability. Bit-rot, power failures etc.
Re:Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
by majewsky on Sunday February 20, 2022 @06:50AM
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Why do you need to hire extra people to manage a cloud storage account with two file uploads per week?
Re:Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
by kalleboo on Sunday February 20, 2022 @03:54AM
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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
by vero2 on Sunday February 20, 2022 @04:59AM
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Perhaps you need to look at average human trying to setup a router/DSL modem in a house hold. Then you may note that all your second sentence is a large task for any CEO. (No offence they are good in their field but anything more than dropbox or email or drive is a no go!)
Re:Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
by Siira on Sunday February 20, 2022 @07:02PM
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CEOs are supposed to, like, delegate.
Re:Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
by manigandham on Sunday February 20, 2022 @07:40AM
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That's unnecessarily complicated and expensive.
Object storage like Wasabi and BackBlaze B2 are $6/year for 100GB, and much easier to upload, maintain and retrieve from in the future.
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 new account - like - company name.2022 dump everything there. Hire an clerk to make sure the credit card is payed every year.
That way you do not lose all videos at a time.
Heck you can even create free Google drive account every few months and segment them.