oh my god this thing is what happened
gusting oh looks like it was in a construction zone
and an apocalypse and then it got snowed on oh my god it's a good thing we
haven't turned it on because there's just like metal server rack hardware just sitting
on the motherboard here
well i think it might short out boys why are we even using this thing well we're
not right now that's for sure oh
i can't even lift it all up
oh i don't even want to touch this
i got a mask on i'm still coughing
you gotta be wondering why we would use a server like this when we have a shiny
new backup server like this one right over here this guy holds the backup for
our main storage server wanik which has all the data for all of our ongoing
projects for all of our channels so thanks to this if we somehow lost a
piece or even all of that data on the main server say to drive failures or
even a fire in our server room we'd have a local copy of it
ready to go for our editors but what if the worst case scenario happened say
there's an earthquake or a tsunami and our whole building is destroyed that is
where our remote backup
our remote backup over 300 kilometers away comes into play except for one
small problem for the past two years it hasn't actually been working and
unfortunately we've used up all of our favors from server manufacturers so
we're going to try to use this thing to replace it we have no idea if it still
works so good luck everybody
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first order of business is let's get annie dale server out of here so that it
doesn't get corrupted corrupted by the dust that's the thing you dust one
server next to another server now you got two dusty servers
oh my god do you want me to take that end well i'm just asking i'm just saying
i'd play a lot of bad things you know i lift a lot of 80 gram weights over and
over and over again this side's way nicer yeah you're good don't worry let me just sorry i just gotta scratch my
back a little bit here you know we're sort of in a hurry oh
yeah so let's just clean the server now then i guess oh
there is wood in here yeah it might be sawdust of some sort okay we're gonna
need to take this outside for the main event i agree cleaning but what is some
of this stuff in here like what is that
um some template for something
it's like plastic too it's so dusty those of you who have been around long
enough might actually recognize this as the very first storinator that we ever
rolled out got that silk screen logo on the front from 45 drive so those are
like ancient SATA
these ones are different i put these okay this was my test server like 20
years ago for like two months well you took really good care of it
construction started and it's just been like actually like two years oh you know
what oh that one there we go yeah
a vertex ii oh my god so i've had this
vertex too since i worked at ncix i don't know why we circled this at some
point it's a 60 gig oh the motherboard i
didn't even look in this thing properly holy
yeah that's gonna be a problem
like those slots like the PCIe slots and
the RAM slots are those even gonna work anymore i hope so so this is a triple
redundant power supply it's literally yeah it's enormous and it uses up like i
don't know i don't even think we can put a different power supply in here that's another thing too is we wouldn't
normally try to roll a server with such outdated hardware because of concerns
about power consumption this is not efficient this is like pretty sure this is ddr3 i think it's ddr4 i don't think
so 1.5 it is
either way we're not that concerned about power efficiency because we don't pay for power in our rack space at that
data center so hey thanks itale yeah thanks i tell
hey the vertical parts aren't that bad that's how you can tell that it was uh
falling dust just a little bit of drywall you know
for those of you wondering what the heck went wrong here part of it is that this
thing's been sitting around for a couple of years but the other part of it is
that it was accidentally left in a rack that was inside a construction zone now
the construction workers very thoughtfully put like they actually
built a box around the rack thinking that they were protecting the delicate
equipment inside i guess they didn't understand that like having a big
opening in the top of it meant that the dust would go in the face
anyways whatever we can fix it hopefully yeah the fact that we haven't powered it
on with this dust is good though yeah if we powered it on this is almost there's
almost definitely something conductive in some of this dust so this thing has
64 gigs of RAM that's fine for an
off-site backup i was thinking about adding more RAM but i i really don't
think we need it especially if we're going to run unraid i think maybe we should vacuum it a little bit first no
we can't vacuum it because there's static problems exactly
we can't suck we have to blow okay okay i think this thing is going to be enough
for reference here let's just uh it'll be fine
all right here we go
alex was like what is going on
it's like new baby oh wow that's bright way more convenient than
getting an air compressor yeah i mean i've i've had things like this before
usually the battery-powered ones but this one
complains about vacuum being too staticky sticks swiffer look we don't
have to put this in the video we are putting this in the video 100 oh oh come
on are you kidding me well i want it to be clean don't i oh you at least have
your live strong bracelet on it's like wait wait how are you taking
this off with a phillips the mounting hardware for this CPU cooler was lost
and so i like ghetto found some like that are the
right size and put some washers on there it works that cooler what is the acid
tank zero two six four we're up to like ten thousand now oh wow this is old
here's a little spring-loaded mounting screw it's just sitting here like this
what is that even from this is not from this computer how is this in here thanks
i hate it i just need some paper towel who keeps moving the bloody paper towel
from the pc build corner i don't like kimwipes they don't have the absorbency
of you want some ipa bro
brandon brings the paper towel back
oh well wait so you went you found paper towel but then you actually you walked
in like 10 seconds after we found paper towels do you have to make noise while
we're shooting i just want to there we go you know you're doing four different
things you're watching tv you're playing a game you're texting on your phone
you're freaking get it to land on it oh wow that was pretty good
ah wait is this actually pro hold on should
i should i no it's not here catch
what is this thing what the sh what is this do you need some tweezers oh it's
just like a little bit of wire
this isn't even like a kind of wire we should be cutting in this office like
it's not oh it's not network or anything Ethernet is it not no look at the color
it's weird no no this is it's totally easy but also why is it in there
like in the socket you should blow that off wait wait before you because this is
dirty you should blow it off first here's a oh yeah that'll do
clean that clean the CPU before you put it in um why do we have like
200 sub to LTT wood chips what's up to
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huh how much work did you put into this like an hour oh okay
can i help you at all yeah sure why don't you install some drives that'd be helpful
i mean we don't even know if this thing posts that might be good to know before
i even bother with this actually i'm just gonna keep installing sas cards
while you do your thing okay here i am installing not one
but two fast cards while you're just like slacking over there look at this
i'm even gonna have all the screws in before you get the cables in i'm already
done oh it's oh you got to put more than one power cable can't you tell it to shut up
no you can't i can what i am god all right power supplies have a meatball oh
well that's pretty good yeah can you entertain a data center if like you had
a hardware failure and it just won't shut up until you fix it
well i thought that was the point of a hardware failure like being noisy and
all wasn't done wasn't done whatever linda i thought you said it's past the
thing it's totally working all right there's could you not tell me we had
that remember albion that died okay that's just give it a sec
i think it's fine that was a good post yeah it's good it's good so we're using
ironwool pro 12 terabytes not all of them well and then these drives are from
annie are you gonna let me talk or not did you know these drives are from annie
dale so with the normal raid you got the stripy stripes across the multiple
drives okay with unraid it actually puts the entire file on a single drive so
you're limited to single drive write speed that's the biggest problem with it
for us though it's not a problem because this is going to be off-site with only a
gigabit connection for our purposes this is going to be more than fine it's
day two and i've got an update for you guys we actually took out the ironwolf
pros because we realized another temporary server clover server was full
of exos drives so now we've got 22 of them which is all we need for our
off-site backup of wanik plus snapshots
of older versions of it so that in case something accidentally gets deleted we
can go back and get it real quick styles we also went and updated the firmware on
our hbas updated the BIOS on the board
updated the ipmi firmware and this thing is humming so well like i'd say it's a
pretty good hummer you know because it doesn't have the greatest power
consumption characteristics and it's is it like an h1 or an h2 it's a hummer
oh yeah we also added a couple of 500 gig cash drives these are running in
raid 1 and they're not super high performance they're just mx500 SATA
drives from crucial but they're high enough performance that if we wanted to
run a vm or something like that then we could and realistically they're way
faster than we need since it's a one gigabit connection to this bad boy now
all we gotta do is put the uh uh where'd they go
where the heck the oh yes ah yes the old 45 drives mechanism for covering
up the drives did they update that oh it's so much better i don't actually
mind this one it's fine these rods are
really stupid you're like
ow damn it my finger this thing is so cute it actually looks
pretty new i know it doesn't even look that old and decrepit anymore so you
know where this was originally deployed no in the hallway at the langley house
really yeah like you would like trip over it in the top of the stairs there
now i can show you what that looks like in the un-raid software we're doing a parody sync right now so you can
actually see pretty much all of our drives are reading at their maximum
speed of about 200 megabytes a second the reason it's doing that is because we
did change out those drives earlier today and so we need to rebuild the
parity data unread does still have parity protection it's just written
individually to two dedicated drives so we can lose up to two of the 22 drives
that are in here without losing any data whatsoever look at that capacity i was
going to say another nice thing about underage is it's got a nice easy to understand graphical interface so you
can see here we've got 240 terabytes
of off-site storage this is kind of fun it's an older system but
kind of still checks out it's doing 3.9 gigabytes per second internally just
reading all the data off those drives those poor hbas are just ripping they're
they're going boys do you think if i wiggle wobble this thing around a bunch
that like read speed will go down it seems like a bad idea
it's all fine and good to have a bunch of storage but we're not going to be like copying things manually so what are
we doing backups are only good if it does it itself right you don't want to rely on human error there especially us
too unlike onex server which does a live file backup to annie dale which we built
a few days ago you guys haven't really heard about that one yet um anyways
sensible jellyfish fire we're calling it annie dale now it's great yeah because
this thing is running unread and we don't really expect the performance to be great running a live file sync to it
probably isn't the best idea even with cache drives so instead we're going to
be doing snapshots and now because our backup server is running zfs we could do
zfs snapshots but we actually are going to use a tool called our snapshot which
is based on rsync a file transfer software that's very ubiquitous amongst
the Linux community the fantastic thing about our snapshot as the name implies
is it takes these snapshots but they're also deduplicated so
say we have our 30 terabytes of like base footage on wanik and we add a
terabyte a day yeah once it does that big backup and say we're doing hourly
backups and we want to keep 24 of them so we have a whole day's worth of them
rather than just like making a new copy each time it creates a new hard link
which is basically like a map that's pointing to those existing files that
are already there so that way when we do our new hourly backup it's only going to add the say 500 gigs from whatever
ingest we just did and then it'll just point to the existing files now the
question becomes what about deleted files well
that's fine too because what it'll do is it'll take your new snapshot and it'll
say oh hey that's not there anymore so
we're just going to throw that out but we're going to leave it in your previous
snapshot just in case you need it later and then what will happen is you set a
policy within the software and say okay i want to keep these snapshots for let's
say hourly for a week and then i want to keep that's
is that i was thinking hourly for 24 hours sure and then it takes once that
24 hours is up it recycles the oldest one as the daily backup so that's one of
the reasons that this needs so much more
storage than the wanik server that it is backing up because it's actually going
to be backing up everything that was on wanik's server over the last probably
month or two but when you think about it say if we do one or two videos a day
realistically we're not gonna pass like a terabyte a day of new footage like i
don't know david can we yeah maybe a little bit more okay whatever it doesn't
matter we'll say it's a terabyte a day 30 days of that that's 30 terabytes plus
the like 30 ish terabytes of like wanak we usually have should be well within
the 240 we have so you give those you give those guys 100 terabytes they fill
it he's been doing pretty good so far the good news is that unraid allows easy
expansion of your unrate array so if we just ship a master carton of hard drives
here's some more irons we can take our sophisticated rods off
here and it'll be fine now to show you guys what this looks like in practice we've
set up a test directory with a sort of 50 gig ish project and we've started the
r snapshot hourly backup and if we look in our backup thing here we got this pdf
Techquickie and look at that it's it's
getting transferred yeah it's it's pretty slow because it's
gigabit but it is at least going i think turbo ride is on right now so it's like
got all the drives spun up but we wouldn't leave that on in practice
so there it is in spite of what it looked like at the beginning of this
project our off-site backup server is ready to go meaning we have a 3-2-1
backup solution in place for the first time in
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