Alex Kretzschmar

Make it useful.

That's right.

And well, there goes one of my pitches for you would be an offsite backup.

Well, I have a friend in Canada, so I'll tell you how I do it.

And so I have a ZFS array in the basement, which just got, I think five, 20 terabyte hard drives in it.

And then I use... It's a program called ZRepl.

Z-R-E-P-L.

For Z Replicate, I guess.

And it essentially...

mirrors all of the ZFS blocks to Canada, which is where, where my friend lives.

And he's got a similar sized server.

He actually runs an MSP.

So he just carved out a few use of rack space for me to use there.

Um, and so I have, he's a very nice friend.

Um, I'm sure he would offer you some rack space if you paid him a few Canadian rubles every month.

Um,

And I just use ZRepple over Tailscale because it's an SSH-based protocol for the replication.

There's a couple of ways.

I mean, the trouble with any cloud provider is that once you get over a few hundred gigs of storage, the cost becomes prohibitive pretty fast.

So there's a service called, and I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but there's a service called zfs.rent.