yes, that is what raid is but that is not a backup. it is making that single logical drive of your data resilient to a single drive failure. if anything goes sideways and you lose 2 drives, you lose 100% of your data. and it does happen. think power supply failure spiking your drives or whatnot.

you dont have to take my word for it, it is well known and well advertised that raid is not a backup.

if you do not have a copy of something in different place, you do not have a backup. raid != backup!, its for reliability (and sometimes speed).

i actually have the local copy, a nightly backup to the nas device, and set of offline drives i keep in a pelican case i refresh a few times per year as a secondary backup.

no, you dont need multiple nics. todays networking is plenty fast. if you really wanted to mount fast youd maybe consider a iscsi, but thats just me showing my age.

depending on the nas… you would make some shared foldering available to the jellyfin machine to mount over the network. users connect to the jellyfin machine, jellyfin feeds them its mounted content.

personally, i use a local copy of the content (6x4tb drives) on the same machine as jellyfin and use the nas as backup. you have a backup, right?

some nas devices will allow multiple nics on the same network to increase throughput, but its really not about directly connecting 2 ethernet devices.

i suspect this falls under the golden rule of 3… price,quality,[ethics].

you get to pick 2

dhcp is the only service that would allocate the address. if you use an address outside of a dhcp scope, youre fine in that it wont be automatically used.

now, this is kinda different per manufacturer… but in some routers generally setting/assigning a static to an mac address is just forcing a little mini 1-to-1 dhcp scope your incoming mac to the ip you set.

well, i do try and keep all my data hot in the server… i am using the devices as redundancy, so no raid anywhere. 24Tb with 3 copies.

ive got a couple of 6-bay readynas i got second hand and a plain ol’ ubunutu workstation i crammed with 6 drives and an ssd.

app server runs off 6 local disks(and an ssd for os) which are replicated to the 2 nas as logical (they pull), the workstation gets a drive-for-drive physical

rsync is your friend.

one piece i highly recommend is running your torrent solution in a container with the network set to a gluetun container. no fuss, no muss, vpn’d torrenting.

for the nas piece, im a big fan of the nas device being single purpose. its life should only exist in fileserving. i have several redundant nas devices and then a big ol app server.

my goal is the ron popeil method of ‘set it and forget it’

Aren’t water and gas valve physically distinct?

could be either. can you get a better look at the coding on the valve itself? painted white, on the right side

friends dont let friends run mail servers. id recommend no on that one

i remember when you could get disks from netflix… 7 at a time! i would turn them around same day. it really helped fill out my movie collection

oh wow, not in a long time…well over a decade…almost 2! i gave up on live tv around then

im usin kodi/jellyfin (plex is proprietary) mostly for the ‘pseudotv’ plugin… so i can have a cable-like system from my local storage

ha, yeah… always keep a burner just in case. i installed a lot of these things. i remember having dozens of those white/blue ibm server disks

pretty damn reliable once up and running. i only ever had wear and tear failures… fans/drives

holy crap does that bring back memories

i would prolly try and get some kind of linux variant installed for containerized nonsense

oh look, its the same time as that stopped clock.

if youre using Emby/Jellyfin you would just need emby to access the folder with your music. users would be authenticated through emby.

i think you should groom your media before you drop it into a media broadcasting solution like emby. i use MediaElch for video, you could use picard for music management. im fairly certain picard has dup detection and rename abilities.

so you get all your music tagged, renamed and encoded the way ya want. then get them organized into files/folders… then drop that into your emby library.

lidarr is for obtaining media files and creating a process that automatically injects it into your library. you would want emby running correctly first.

i used to care about windows… i had to use and support it at work, it was easy to crack and maintain. then something changed and i walked away into linux land.

i still need to care about windows at work, but instead of getting all anx-y i just laugh it off. my employers are getting exactly what they chose.

its HILarious when shit doesnt work… a new version breaks all inter-company communication, all that nonsense is just pure entertainment now.

my canned response is ‘were all beta testers now, buckle up’

you can hardly tell you had that tbi awhile back. congrats!

100% agree. gluetun solved my vpn bleeding/failure problems.

friends dont let friends host email. its just become too top heavy (complexity-wise) if you want it to be fully functional and secure.