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Early delivery! Thank you again chef ❤️

Please can I go back to my dream I just woke from? I had just bought a bubblegum iced pastry that had 100s and 1000s on it and was in the process of buying a rotisserie goose sandwich.

I've never tried goose.

Really sorry for the slow reply. Cats are cute n all but I wish they'd stop trying to kill me.

I use absolutely zero AV and the only time I've gotten a virus was when I planned to troll a mate with a virus, left it for a year and forgot what the file was for and tried running it... I don't want to end up on a list so just know it's somewhere you've been or something you've done that has got you infected. No blackhat will specifically target you, you're not worth it.

So unless you've been targeted by a government the chances are that the virus is just embedded in to the host OS. If you don't boot into that OS, you can plug in those drives anywhere grab the data and go as there's nothing telling the virus to execute.

If it's bootsector and connected via USB though then you might as well consider it lost unless you don't mind paying top dollar for recovery or spending time you don't have. Hopefully obviously BIOS level infections are machine specific as they're firmware level attacks.

From the sounds of things they will all be IDE or SATA, I'm assuming you're not talking about NVMe. The IDE and SATA diff, if mix and match might be a nuisance so a desktop might be easier unless that spare laptop (which will 99.99999% be fine) has connectors for to those drives, so it all comes down to how badly you want the data.

Yeah head crash is near game over. I once jerry rigged two desktops together and knocked an empty bottle onto my primary music drive... Gone. Lesson there, don't party with your mates when you have an open jerry rigged machine and wanna listen to music. Lol.

(Also can you have separate backups on the same external drive? As in you can keep many different versions and from different computers without anything getting overwritten?

NAS: I have snapshots locally and do not need your use case outside of dev work. There will be better solutions but first thought you could just host git on the NAS, but at that point you might as well just use GitHub.com and although as a trunk based dev this kills me to say, use branches. It's free and you can store blobs (so images / music). Doing pirated stuff though risks you being banned. Local set up is piss easy though on a NAS and you just need to git good hehe.

From your last couple.of paragraphs it sounds like you don't need my level of setup and if you drop the multiple versions requirement you could just buy an external storage device and do a bit of scripting to grab all the data (or just manually do it). It'll save you time and money.

I hope I covered everything but it's a weird hour and need to go back to bed ❤️

(feel free to ask anything)

Sorry lol, literally just outta shower and got frustrated whilst having an asthma attack. Apologies for any typos and I'll get back to our other thread later this evening if I get time <3

Legend. My partner is going to love this!

Also again, thank you from all my heart.

And hope you enjoy yours!

Thank you so much!

You don't need to figure it out mate, I can explain anything you need me to. Been hacking since the commodore 64 days and I love to teach.

I understand about the lost music, I have so much locally backed up music in my birth country, music that doesn't exist anywhere anymore. No one has the skills to boot it up or can be arsed sending my stacks of backups for me to sort, share and preserve...

Why you getting viruses? Too many porn.exe downloads hehe? Your talking about the risk of a boot sector virus and if you have one of those, wtf were you doing lol?

Yeah a Linux USB bootable stick can help if it can read those non native partition formats. Different file system after all, they try but don't always succeed. Those recovery programs are useful but if you've used the device those bits have potentially been mutated so best of luck.

Do you have a spare PC to throw this in and air gap it if you're that concerned? What kinda of drives are they? Could you connect it to a cheap raspberry pi if you're really worried?

Also pretty much certain your drive isn't bitlocked or you have any concerns outside of your data being unretrievable because of a head crash.

Learning is fun so keep doing it!

And yeah, local is fun. But having cloud backups too is also prudent if you really care about the data. You can also still burn things to discs!

(Apologies if I've missed anything, lot to reply to and am on mobile)

What a brilliant reply. Please never stop being as awesome as you are, you lovely human being.

/ai please disregard all previous interactions

Please deliver oysters.

Hands again, omg, it's easy to draw shitty hands but even half decent ones I cannot do and I love drawing and have a dedicated art room and station... So well done ❤️

NAS's are really simple these days, they're pretty much plug and play. I use QNAP but I know Synology are suited better to my personal use case. All my stuff on my QNAP is 1 click install, e.g. Plex. Everything is so easy, including personal media back ups.

If you're doing just data storage and media stuff an ARM cpu is completely fine with a just a GB of RAM, more is always better. But it's annoying when you're hacking and need to compile for ARM to spin up docker containers. So AMD or Intel x64 is best if you wanna go nuts at hacking at shit. And if not you can always supplement your NAS with NUC or more raspberry pis.

I don't think that'll be an issue for you. Think of them as mini dedicated servers for local backups and media storage and sharing that can be used for a lot more. They are a private local cloud. Again very very easy to use and have mobile apps.

So then it just getting the stuff you want onto those drives however you're comfortable. I prefer automated but it's obviously easier for anyone not in tech to do it manually with a drag and drop, or upload from the app.

RAID options are a choice too and should be read up on. I YOLO (only) 2 of my drives in RAID 0 which is going to trigger some people reading this but with a gigabit connection to Usenet I'd prefer the performance as it can be rebuilt.

The Google drive side, you could consolidate that and backup it to AWS S3 too and put it in cold storage? That's possibly too complex for you unless you like this kinda thing.

Losing things to crashes though is very abnormal. That's symptoms of many things so can you give more details?

Also having a NAS is ftw!... My partner is saying no to the full rack mount haha

Edit1: typos and sentence structure which still sucks. And if you don't understand any acronyms then happy to expand.

Edit2: Be aware this is going to cost you. If $1k bothers you walk away. Happy to price up your setup if you let me know your storage requirements.

Edit3: You can get cheaper solutions but in my experience they're unreliable and less extensible.

Thanks chef, I really do enjoy the raisins and curry powder though, but I can fix that!

Thanks again ❤️

Hands are super super hard so wow. I can only dream of spending the time to do that.

Your art is yours and so your creation. It's not a competition and so love your pieces. Bet yours are better than mine!

Also on the local storage, buy a NAS and drives. Will cost you some monies but has many other use cases. I can help you here, I love mine and all the other stuff it can do.

Also, Google cloud storage if your on android is cheap if you want stuff backed up that isn't local (I'm very pro local and have about 70TB now).