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I'm working on my own stuff to replace it. But this is secure and working at the moment. All I'm doing is nip05s and note backup right now. The lnbits will be harder to replace for me... But a custom relay isn't too far off. Does it make you feel better if I told you my server is raid 10 and also backed up once a week to another remote server? I'm a hobbyist and I won't claim to be able to provide the service you can. 10k sats is just a pretty good filter to stop spam.
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semisol 1y ago

Oh, that was not about the service. I just hate LNbits and “node distributions” for many reasons.

Unfortunately I am stuck with LNbits as there is no alternative but I made it deposit only.

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semisol 1y ago

Unrelated to that but any reason for going RAID 10 instead of something like RAID 5? XOR is pretty optimized to the point you’ll probably saturate memory bandwidth easily and you get more capacity.

And for weekly backups: I do hourly ones to an on site server, and daily to off site.

Proxmox makes it really easily. Also, setting retention rules helps: 12 backups hourly, 14 backups daily, 8 backups weekly, 6 backups monthly

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semisol 1y ago

But it also costs a ton.

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OceanSlim 1y ago

I literally just replaced my raid 5 array with a 10. I had 3 drives but through circumstances got a 4th one just like them. Since I had 4 of the same drives when I rebuilt, I just went with 10.

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semisol 1y ago

I would still recommend RAID 5. The overhead is minimal and capacity waste drops by 2x

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OceanSlim 1y ago

I wouldn't use a umbrel "node" for actually making transactions to and custodying things. I mean, it's a passthrough for lightning. But for personal use, I do feel comfortable without a dedicated machine on another local network for security... And it's way easier for me to just setup core than all the umbrel stuff. Umbrel just makes having a lot of stuff under one roof in a bunch of containers really easy.