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title: "Storage servers at home"
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date: 2020-07-17T19:00:00+02:00
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I was born in the 90s. I grew up with computers. Other generations call us "digital natives". I am lucky and proud to
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work with computers every day with a database specialization. People tend to generate lots of data. It might be
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administrative papers (bills, contracts, paychecks), sentimental photo albums or whatever the data is as long as it is
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**their** data. At work, we pay attention to back up every data though it was the most important thing in the world. At
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home, it should be the same but, in fact, nobody really cares about it unless the data is definitely gone.
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My family members used to buy a single USB hard drive and regularly copy their data to it and think it is safe. This
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highly depends on the frequency of the backup. Actually, they didn't copy very often. If the drive fails, they call me
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to the rescue but I'm not a magician.
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Another solution involves sending their data to "the cloud" because they have seen on TV this will solve all of their
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problems. Cloud providers can, intentionally or unintentionally, leak their data. If we materialize data, I'm not sure
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my family wants to send their physical storage cupboard to the United States for the sake of data safety. We live in
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Belgium and France. There is no point of sending our data to the other side of the planet in someone else's hands.
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So I decided to **self-host a set of storage servers at home** and offer this service to my own family. It has to be
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simple as my parents will be the main users. I am a full-time employee and a proud dad. I have a little bit of time to
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do the service maintenance. It is an opportunity for me to learn and share it to the world. Welcome to my self-hosting
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project. I hope you will learn something too.
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