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I created this project and wiki because I found myself answering the same questions repeatedly online. This is a way for me to both link to standard explanation and information, original sources, and also for me to publicly track potential solutions for myself. I hope others find it useful.

Organized Alphabetically:

• Explainers
  • How Linux, BSD, UNIX, and macOS Relate to Each Other
  • Why I Use Resilio Sync Instead of Syncthing
  • Why US Buyers Should Purchase Datacenter HDDs instead of NAS HDDs
  • Why You Should Separate Compute and Backup Workloads
  • Why You Shouldn't Stress Test HDDs Unless You're Trying to Maximize Uptime
  • Why You Shouldn't Use Most Premade NAS Solutions
• Guides
  • Disaster Recovery and Backups for OpenRC BSDs to non ZFS Repositories
  • Disk Encryption Options
  • How Much Raw Storage You'll Need for RAID
  • How Often Arrays Can Be Scrubbed Without Reducing HDD Life
  • How to Calculate the Odds of Physical Attack Data Loss for a ZFS Array
  • How to Configure a Samba Server
  • How to Generate an Affordable Server or NAS Parts List
  • How to Get Your Home Wired for Ethernet
  • How to Install OpenIndiana
  • How to Install Pycharm on Debian from the JetBrains script
  • How to Set Up Regular, Recurring, Incremental, Online Filesystem Backups using Restic
  • How to Set Up Regular, Recurring, Recursive, Incremental, Online, In Place Filesystem Backups Using zfsnap
  • How to Store HDDs Long Term
  • How to Update dnscrypt proxy in Debian with Minimal Downtime
• Projects
  • Ongoing
    • Mixed Environment, Multilevel Backup
  • Future (in order of descending priority/implementation)
    • All Other Projects
• Recommended Hardware
• Recommended Software
• Troubleshooting
• Useful Links