Why do we do this?

For a thorough motivation why you want ZFS, read that original article by the inventors

ZFS the Last Word in File Systems Jeff Bonwick Bill Moore https://docslib.org/doc/8038938/zfs-the-last-word-in-file-systems-jeff-bonwick-bill-moore

There are several good overviews/tutorials about how to do it. I recommend the one in FreeBSD (and you don’t need to actually use Freebsd for it).

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/zfs/

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How long do you keep your backups?

Yes, I have that exernal HDD lying around somewhere near the PC, and it was at least 4 or 5 times that I backed up a lot of files on it.

I think I keep it for more than 10 years now.

Hug your kids

…while you still can.

OK so 5 years is kinda game changer.
Around here, I have only ever seen 1 year (or none at all).

For refurbished drives, the SMART values are reset to “new”.

Would you be satisfied if all your refurb drives live only for the duration of this warranty?

I wouldn’t. Especially as a private buyer (or a small business) I would expect that most of them must live much longer than that.

But after knowing all what is really going on with this refurb business, you have to expect to actually use the warranty, that is, see drives actually fail within the warranty period and then request replacements by warranty claims. Not as an exception, but for a good part of all that you have bought “refurbished”.

fairly cheap refurb hard drive seller

Rant:

As a private person, you should avoid refurbished hard drives like the pest!

Imagine buying a used car where the mileage counter has been reset to zero and the vehicle identification number has been tampered with, so that you cannot find out it’s history. You see that it looks shiny and you know that it has been checked (well, somewhat), but you don’t know that checklist. You even know that nobody knows that checklist.

Seriously, you can only assume the worst about this used hard drive’s real condition (years of usage, highest temperature, number of bad sectors…), and also about this reseller.

Refurbished hard drives can only be bought by data centers (or other mass users), where their failure rate is calculated by statistics, but not by 5 or 20 failed drives.

Nobody should ever use a DNS that discriminates against content.

That’s like a gardener who wants to know to whom you are going to give these roses, and then he tells you his opinion about her.

Take a huge hammer.
Smash the brick.
Separate the parts.
Pull the Google Play Services out from the middle (use large, sturdy pliers if needed).
Done.

No. Too many prerequisites before I could even start testing.

The common solution is not to replace the UPS but only the battery inside. They are standard sizes and for a cheap UPS probably around 10 - 20 bucks.

No, it’s a monopoly

What did you think that we think about a stupid pic that even the poster finds unworthy of a few words to it?

Never forget, from the year 2026 on, you are challenged always and everywhere to show that you are human and not a bot.

It was actually a sad day when we powered it off for the last time

No, it died not from the reboot.

It died because it’s life had no meaning anymore, after you had taken all the workload off it.

/s

In order to drink lots of beer and not get drunk from it…

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… you just could drink 20 shots first, then you are drunk already, and afterwards you can drink as much beer as you want, but you won’t get drunk from it!

Ok ok that was bullshit of the purest kind. But the post was the same. 🙃

I use Debian as my daily driver

Chances are that you would find Ubuntu not just more complicated, but unneccessary complicated.

Stay with Debian. It can do everything.

Can you upload by any other means, or does it always require it’s own upload mechanism?