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  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldTailscale n00b questions
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    20 hours ago

    I don’t want to risk any data compromise at some point

    What data compromise are you worried about?

    • End-to-End Encryption: Tailscale utilizes WireGuard
    • No Centralized Servers: Tailscale creates a direct peer-to-peer connection between devices
    • Minimal Metadata: Tailscale may collect some metadata to facilitate connections, but this info does not include the content of your data.
    • User-Controlled Access: You have control over which devices can connect
    • Tailscale does not, and cannot inspect your traffic

    I’m not the Tailscale sales person. Go with whatever suites your threat model. I am just curious what data compromise you are concerned with. If it’s the metadata aspect, you already blew that away when you made the post here at Lemmy, even assuming you are using a VPN.




  • Out in my neck of the woods, NextDoor wouldn’t be effective. Lots of acreage between people. We don’t take kindly to snoopers and busybodies. We keep an eye on each other, but not in a nosy neighbor kind of way. Now, where my lady friend lives, it’s eat up with NextDoor. She showed me her feed once, I was like ‘You know, I strongly believe America could solve about 50% of their problems with this one simple trick: Mind Your Own Business!’.















  • I’m not sure if I qualify as a ‘larger local hoster’ but I would go through your 20 TB and decide what really is important enough to backup in case the wheels fall off. Linux ISOs, those can be re-downloaded, although it would take a bit of time. The things that can’t be readily downloaded such as my music collection that I have been accumulating for decades, converted to flac, and meticulously tagged, can’t be re-downloaded. So that is one of my priorities to back up. Pictures, business documents, personal documents, can’t be re-downloaded, so that goes on the ‘must back up’ list…and so on. Just cull out what is and isn’t replaceable. I would bet that once you do that, your 20 TB will be a bit more slim, and you’re not trying to push 20TB up the pipe to a cloud backup.

    I use BackBlaze’s Personal, unlimited tier for $99 USD per year, which is a pretty sweet deal. One thing about Backblaze to remember is that the drives being backed up must be physically connected to the PC doing the backup/uploading. I get around that because I have a hot swap bay on my main PC, but there are other methods and software that will masquerade your NAS or other as a physically connected drive.