#so I'm looking forward to across the board improvements in server performance

[spook-rambles]

iiiiiiiit's backup day! other than one notable natural disaster and one notable hard drive crash, I've kept a (relatively) scrupulous horde of data that accumulated since the first time I had a "My Documents" folder. it's getting to the point where my tech horde consists of the big Windows machine, a pretty decent ESXi (virtual hosting OS, mostly a fancy way for me to run my Ubuntu server) server, and like three laptops that were too broke for my mom but not for me. Add into this mess several multi-terabyte movie and show libraries floating around at different levels of backing up and improving on one another.

enter backup day. ya boi is tired of this shit. I've been slowly merging my monolithic amounts of data together so I can start The Great Reinstall (upgrading software on everything I own and reformatting a lot of drives) but. I've just left my one working large external hard drive in Minnesota. and I don't have a power adapter for the other one. It's fine! I just shoved some specially bent paddle connectors in there

should be fine!

but anyway by like sometime tomorrow I can actually start reinstalling stuff, but I'm excited to have a central repository for all my data, and it should then be really easy to create a formal backup schedule

why do you have to do this spook? You ask. Well you see. I'd like to start mass wiping and formatting drives and computers because well. my minecraft server got hacked and I got a bunch of other weird stuff so I said fuck it! new everything! but also I don't want to list a solid 6 to 8 terabytes of legally acquired media I've been hording for e v e r plus my hundreds of gigabytes of photos!