It isn’t, it is the least bad

You don’t really need a self hosted app, you can write a sceipt to do the following:

1. Check if file X exists.
2. If file X does exist, delete it
3. If file X doesn’t exist, delete directory Y

Then create a new scheduled task to run the script every week.

The result is that you have a deadman switch with a weeks delay

Unless you recreate file X every week, directory Y will be deleted.

This is a very simplistic example, but it would be decently difficult to figure out.

I am a hobby photographer and usually take a few hundred GBs of photos every year (I shoot in JPG+RAW), I have other media as well, but I am mainly concerned about my photos.

I have them currently saved to a single HDD in my computer, which has worked ok, but I have seen bitrot in some files…

So I was reliable storage, currently thinking of a zraid1 with four normal disks, one parity, one hot spare and one cold spare, I am looking for it to last a minimum of ten years with normal maintenance.

I will probably put 64GB ram in the server, and possibly an SSD cache over time

I am currently building a home server, this project timeline has been extended as I had no idea hard drives would be THAT expensive at the capacities I want…

I do have an old computer that is not in use, but I don’t want to run a Bulldozer plattform…

So I am basing my new server on the AMD Ryzen 4600G, should be fine

Bester is looking fly!

Sweet!

That is a very good practice, it is better than my suggestion as it eliminates potential error when copy pasting

Interesting, I have to look into that, I am taking it slow, and will buy storage drives over a few months to spread the cost out, so I have time to think about it

I am also working on building a new NAS, I didn’t realize it was going to be so damned expensive though…

Currently I am thinking of going for ZFS with six drives, four pure storage, one parity and one hot spare, I would also need another drive as a cold spare…

I am interested in ZFS due to it’s bitrot protection, I have already seen some of my photos affected by bitrot…

I have used dd a few times without destroying my disk, here is my simple recommendation to stay safe:

DON’T TYPE THE COMMAND DIRECTLY INTO THE TERMINAL!

What I mean is that you should open a text editor, type the dd command you want to run in the editor, let it sit for 5 min, go back to the text editor, find the OF path, doublecheck and verify that it is safe.

Correct misstakes, wait another 5 min and do the check again.

Once you are confident that the command is accurate, copy paste it into a terminal and run it.

What if you don’t have one?

That’s not a whark!

This is a whark:

https://dni.fandom.com/wiki/Wahrk

I will never not upvote a B5 reference.

IBMs tabulation machines were never required for the functions of the death camps, but they vastly increased the speed and efficiency with which the Nazis were able to find and murder people through the death camps.

There are clear differences in countries where the census database were poorly implemented and those that had a well established census database before the Nazis invaded, in how many people the Nazis were able to find and murder.

Is an apartment not a home?

KF?

The Swedish classic comedy TV show “Macken”, had different version of the intro song for every episode, all different styles by different Swedish artists.

A1,A2,B2,C3,

I wonder how well that would run on a 700MHz ARM CPU with a maximum of 512 MB RAM…

Sadly, until three things happen, this is not likely to change.

1. LDAP for anything other than Windows needs to get way better, support for GPOs as extensively at Windows has is a requiernment.
2. Software, you can have the coolest OS in the world, but as long as it doesn’t have normal third party applications, it is not suitable for office or government work.
3. Technicians, you need to have knowledgable technicians to support the OS, without them there is no way any company or government would ever use it.