Backups and Archiving
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#4399: How a Bank Card Nearly Killed 5,000 Episodes
A textbook backup setup quietly degraded to a single copy. Here’s how—and how to prevent it.
#4391: Why Your AI Chat History Has No Real Backup
Your ChatGPT conversations are your external brain—and you can lose them with a single expired credit card.
#4379: One Filesystem to Rule Them All
Merge Google Drive, S3, and NAS into one browsable tree on your phone.
#4339: How Text Survives a Tunnel: Offline Queueing Deep Dive
What happens when you tap send in a tunnel? The browser, service worker, and backend dance that makes tiny payloads survive offline.
#4073: Private Buckets, Pre-Signed URLs: Self-Hosting Without the Compromise
How to keep your self-hosted images secure, accessible, and cloud-friendly without becoming the product.
#4068: How to Build a Go Image Pipeline for Your Inventory App
Stop treating your inventory app like a photo dump. Here's how to build a smart image pipeline in Go.
#3790: Server Distro Showdown: BTRFS, ZFS & Pragmatic Picks
Why filesystem support often picks your distro — and what "support" actually means in practice.
#3789: What Virtualization Actually Costs on 2026 Hardware
Real benchmarks show 2-6% overhead for single-VM setups. Here's what's actually happening at the CPU level.
#3788: RAID Reshaping Showdown: BTRFS vs ZFS vs XFS
Can you change RAID levels without nuking your data? We compare BTRFS, ZFS, and XFS for home server upgrades.
#3787: Proxmox vs Stock Linux for Home Servers
When rebuilding a home server, should you install Proxmox or just use stock Linux with KVM? We break down the tradeoffs.
#3786: When Your DNS Dies: Home Network Failure Cascade
One dead server, ZFS corruption, and a DNS collapse that takes down everything—including your ability to fix it.
#3782: Ezra the Scribe vs. Hardware Failure
What ancient text preservation teaches us about modern backup strategies that hardware redundancy can’t fix.
#3781: Peer-to-Peer Backup: Brilliant or Overcomplicated?
Can a blockchain-inspired network replace your backup drive? We explore the promise and hidden pitfalls.
#3776: ZFS Mirroring: Why Your RAID Card Is the Weak Link
A hardware RAID card makes ZFS less safe. Here's why an HBA and a simple mirror are the real upgrade.
#3748: Your Backup Is Probably Corrupted Right Now
How to catch ZFS pool degradation before your backup faithfully preserves garbage for weeks.
#3747: How to Pick an SSD That Won't Die in Your Home Server
ZFS degradation warnings are scary. Here's what to replace that drive with — and what spec numbers actually matter.
#3431: How YouTube Stores 500 Hours of Video Every Minute
YouTube's videos are shredded, replicated across global servers, and stored at a cost approaching zero. Here's how.
#3399: Why Mail a Disc to Your In-Law?
Cloud backups are durable. Physical backups give you sovereignty. Here’s why both matter — and how M-Disc fits in.
#3218: Building Your Own Cloud in 2026
The software and hardware for a DIY private cloud have never been more feasible. Here's how to pick the right pieces.
#3217: When a Truck Beats the Internet: Shipping Data at Scale
Why FedEx sometimes beats fiber for moving massive datasets across the country.
#3033: 3,000 Episodes, 3 Copies: Is This Backup Setup Enough?
Three copies, two clouds, one NAS. But is this setup truly protecting 3,000 podcast episodes?
#3024: How to Incrementally Back Up Google Photos to Your NAS
Build a quarterly backup pipeline for Google Photos using the Library API, hash deduplication, and your NAS.
#2938: How to Prevent Linux Desktop Crashes Under Heavy Load
Stop losing work to memory exhaustion, CPU lockups, and GPU hangs on Linux workstations.
#2799: Where Should Your Images Actually Live?
WordPress to static sites: where do images & videos go? Repo, object storage, or CDN — and when to move up the chain.