i kinda don't just wanna chuck these drives into my suitcase and hope for the best because it'd suck a lot if something happened. it's essentially a big volume with all my backups from my computers and servers, a lot of archived data (think uni work, documents, etc.), and a sizeable local media collection which i could definitely scrape back together if i had to but it'd be really fucking annoying.
doing it over the internet kinda isn't an option (see image above). even if i upgraded my connection to the highest speed available to me (which would be stupid bc i'd have to commit for a year and i'm literally moving to a different country), i'd spend like 2 weeks just uploading while also paying 50€/month more than i currently do (on top of the $80/month i'd pay for backblaze.)
backblaze b2 (which would cost me about $80/month to store that much data) has an option where they send you a nas to put your stuff on but that's $550. i can just get another set of 4x6tb drives for much less than that and actually throw those in my suitcase though.
i'm kinda leaning towards buying more drives and bringing a copy in my suitcase but i'm open to suggestions.
so i ended up getting some new drives and having @masklayer put together a temporary solution that involved a thinkcentre, a sas card, and an external drive cage.
i finally started replicating my zpools and. promptly ran into another issue. all traffic between riebeck and straylight (both on residential connections) is awfully slow. both of them can, however, talk to my vps completely normally. i think i'm actually about to route all traffic between those machines over my vps to save A Lot of time.
