I do kinda wonder how people store their projects long-term.

Sure, git repo is the way to go, but sometimes you have stuff like vendor-provided sources or NDA documentation that can't be uploaded anywhere...

My work drive (Optane 900P 280GB that I received from a person working for Intel few years back) is used for projects that are ongoing, as compiling is crazy fast on it (kernel compiles ~3 minutes faster than on Kingston KC3000 which is my main drive).

I guess I probably should build a NAS, but in this economy... uuh, no thanks

@elly > vendor-provided sources or NDA documentation that can’t be uploaded anywhere…

can’t be uploaded

oh just do it. worst case it’ll get DMCA’d, no worries for you.

also you can throw it onto our forgejo and make it a private repo. or hell, do the same with github, they won’t care

@elly GlasgowEmbedded/archive has a bunch of those, nobody cares

@domi > worst case it’ll get DMCA’d, no worries for you.
Well, worst-case would be getting nuked from the orbit by lawyers

It's also about the ease of finding what I'm looking for, it's not easy to sort trough 1.2TB of data so I'm mostly wondering about the structure

@elly not how this works! it’s DMCA first, then you get lawyers on repeated offences from the same companies. this NEVER happens unless you’re haxxing like nintendo or sth

re ease of finding… my favourite place for finding formerly-confidential documents is 0x04.net (aka @mwk’s server), when it shows up in ddg results. and this could be you!

@elly how about restic? i use it for backing up basically anything

it's a deduplicated encrypted object store that allows you to do incremental snapshots of your data similarly to btrfs, and for untrusted hosts it also has append-only mode

restic.net

@elly and if you’re really scared just upload it to archive.org from a throwaway account. ticks all the boxes, it’s searchable, public, etc

@alina @elly i think this solves none of her problems while creating a myriad of new ones

@domi @elly why, that way one can just throw an S3 bucket at it

but maybe i misunderstood the problem

@domi @elly you're right, i'm sorry

@elly Building a small local NAS is easy, just get an old board (doesn't even have to be very powerful) and a bunch of hard drives, install alpine, optionally setup NFS (but it's quite slow for mass-copying things... ssh+rsync is way faster), you're done!

@elly anything that can handle hard drives and that was released in the last 20 years should work just fine