Oh, and back up your bookmarks. It's a good habit!
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Auspicious sighting of Cat5 the data center cat portends six more weeks of uptime, and possibly a safe mountain crossing todaypic.twitter.com/dvmegczWZV
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Here 29 TB of your precious bookmarks ceding the passenger seat to a Japanese robot toiletpic.twitter.com/bn5N5rsZOd
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API should be down for the time it takes me to replace 8 hard drives, realize I screwed them in backwards, screw them in again, plug everything back in, and then fix some Ubuntu boot loader issue that I've never seen before and will have to research in a cold sweat. Back ASAP!pic.twitter.com/jposQmbh45
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Hey nerd herd, how come it's 2021 and supermicro servers take so long to boot? The actual Linux boot time off SSD is minimal, but they seem to spend many minutes just ruminating on BIOS things at each reboot. Do we (I) have to live like this or is there a fix?
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OK, API should be back up. I gotta go skedaddle over the Donner Pass right before the snows hit—always an excellent plan. I'll check any error reports once I get over into Nevada, the one state where it never snows.
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By the way if anyone has clever ideas about how to move 80TB of data more virtually, or wants an exciting unpaid internship at Pinboard ops, I'm all ears. Last time I did a full off-site backup I was chased out of California by fire, this time by ice.
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For people wondering why I'm making mid-pandemic road trips with big boxes of disks, the problem boils down to an oddity of progress in tech. You can now store absurd amounts of data cheaply, but it's still hard to move it around in bulk (both inside and outside the computer)
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So the box in the photo above has 29 TB of user data. Pinboard has a 100 Mbps connection to the outside world; if I used 100% of that capacity, I could theoretically back up about 1 TB/day to a remote undisclosed location, so it would take about a month to move this data
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Replying to @Pinboard
So, uh, tell us you have winter tires? I would also suggest, I dunno, getting a cheapo baremetal server somewhere like he or ovh or something to mirror to.
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I already host the site on cheapo bare metal servers. What's the attraction of adding more? The constraint is bandwidth to move the data around, not storage. And there's a real advantage to having a backup that's not online where mean people could hack into it and delete it
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