(metal clanging)
- Oh, my God. - Wow.
- This thing is disgusting. - What happened?
- [Jake] Ugh!
- 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
'cause there's just metal server rack hardware
just sitting on the motherboard here.
Look! (guys laughing)
Oh, I think it might short out, boys!
Why are we even using this thing?
- Well, we're not right now, that's for sure.
- [Linus] Ugh!
- Oh, no! - I can't even lift it all up!
- Ew! (guys laughing)
- Ugh! - Ew!
- Ugh, I don't even wanna touch this.
(coughs) I got a mask on and I'm still coughing!
(metal clanging)
- 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, Whonnock,
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 (makes poofing sound)
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--
(coughs) Sorry!
Our remote back up 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 gonna try to use this thing to replace it.
We have no idea if it still works so good luck, everybody.
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(upbeat music)
First order of business is let's get
Auntie Dale server outta 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 (chuckles).
- Oh, boy, this thing is--
Oh, my God!
- [Linus] You want me to take that end?
Well, I'm just asking.
I'm just saying I play a lot of badminton, you know,
I lift a lot of 80 gram weights
over and over and over again.
- This side's way nicer! - Yeah, yeah, you're good.
Don't worry. - Let me just--
- Oh, okay. - Sorry, just gotta
scratch my back a little bit here.
- You know, we're sort of in a hurry.
- [Jake] Oh, yeah?
- So let's just clean the server now then, I guess.
Oh.
- [Jake] 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.
- The cleaning bit.
What is some of the stuff in here?
What is that?
(chuckles) What is that? - Some template for something.
It's plastic, too.
- It's so dusty. - Wait.
- 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 silkscreen logo on the front from 45Drive.
So those are ancient SATA enterprise drives.
- These ones are different.
I put these, okay, this was my test server
like two years ago for two months.
- Well, you took really good care of it.
(Jake laughs) - Construction started
then it's just been actually two years.
- Oh, you know what?
That's probably why
this thing's in here. - Yeah!
A Vertex2! - Oh, my God!
So I've had this Vertex2 since I worked at NCIX.
I don't know why we circled this.
(Jake laughs) It's a 60-gigger.
- Oh, the motherbo--
I didn't even look in this thing properly.
Holy! (chuckles)
- Yeah, that's-- - Ugh!
- [Linus] That's gonna be a problem.
- [Jake] The PCIE slots and the RAM slots,
are those even gonna work anymore?
- [Linus] I hope so.
So this is a triple redundant
power supply. - It's huge.
- Yeah, it's enormous.
And it uses up like,
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.
Pretty sure this is a DDR3.
- I think it's DD4. - I don't think so!
- No?
1.5? - It is!
Whooee!
Either way, we're not that concerned about power efficiency
'cause we don't pay for power in our rack space
at that data center.
- Thanks, iTel!
- Yeah, (chuckles) thanks, iTel. (laughs)
Hey, the vertical parts aren't that bad.
That's how you can tell that it was falling dust.
- [Jake] 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 having a big opening in the top of it meant
that the dust would go in. (chuckles)
- [Jake] 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,
there's almost definitely something conductive
in some of this dust.
So this thing has 64 gigs of RAM.
That's fine for an offsite backup.
- I was thinking about adding more RAM
but I really don't think we need it
especially if we're gonna run Unraid.
I think maybe we should vacuum it a little bit first.
- No, we can't vacuum it 'cause there's static problems.
We can't suck, we have to blow.
- Okay. - Okay.
- [Jake] I think this thing's gonna be enough
for reference here, let's just...
(loud whirring) It'll be fine.
- All right, here we go.
(loud whirring) Ah!
(upbeat music)
(loud whooshing) - (laughs) Alex is like,
"What is going on?"
(upbeat music)
(loud whooshing)
- It's like new, baby!
- [Jake] Oh, wow!
- Right? - Way more convenient
than getting an air (mumbles). - Yeah.
I've had things like this before.
- [Jake] Usually the battery-powered ones suck
but this one--
(chuckles) Complains about vacuum
being too staticky, sticks Swiffer in.
- [Linus] Look, we don't have to put this in the video.
- We're putting this in the video, 100%.
Oh, oh, come on, are you kidding me?
- [Linus] Well, I want it to be clean, don't I?
(Jake groans)
- [Jake] Do you at least have your Livestrong bracelet on?
(Linus laughs)
Wait, wait.
How are you taking this off with a Phillips--
The mounting hardware for this CPU cooler was lost.
And so I ghetto-found some that are the right size
and put some washers on there.
It works.
That cooler, what does the acid tank, 0264.
We're up to 10,000 now.
- Oh, wow. - Yeah, this is old.
- Here's a little spring-loaded mounting screw.
It's just sitting here like this.
(Jake laughs loudly)
- 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 (beep).
- Yo, you want some IPA, bro?
Brandon brings the paper towel back! (laughs)
- Oh, well.
Wait, so you found paper towel,
but then you didn't actually--
- [Jake] You walked in 10 seconds
after we found paper towel.
- Do you have to make noise while we're shooting?
- I just wanna--
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 fricking get it to land
on its thing. - Oh wow that was pretty good!
Oh! - Oh!
- Wait, is this isopropyl? - Hold on.
Should I (mumbles), no, it's not.
- [Jake] Here, catch.
- [Linus] What is this thing?
What is this?
- [Jake] Do you need some tweezers?
- Oh, it's just like a little bit of wire.
This isn't even a kind of wire
we should be cutting in this office.
It's not network or anything. - Ethernet, is it not?
- No, look at the color, it's weird.
- No, no, no, this is, this totally is ethernet.
But also why is it in there?
Like in the socket?
You should blow that off.
'Cause this is dirty, you should blow it off first.
Here's a... (loud spraying)
- [Linus] Oh, yeah, that'll do.
(loud spraying)
- [Jake] Clean the CPU before you put it in.
- Why do we have 200 sub to LTT wood chips?
- Sub to LTT!
- [Linus] Huh, how much work did you put into this?
- Oh, okay.
- [Jake] (laughs) Oh, yeah!
(Jake laughs) (loud clattering)
Can I help you at all? - Yeah, sure.
Why don't you install some drives?
That'd be helpful.
(Jake grunts loudly)
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 SAS cards while you're just slacking over there.
Look at this, I'm even gonna have all the screws in
before you get the cables in.
- [Jake] I'm already done.
- [Linus] Oh, you gotta put more than one power cable
in this one. - Well, can't you tell it
to shut up? - No you can't.
- I can. - What?
- [Jake] I am God.
Oh, redundant power supplies have a mute button.
- [Linus] Oh, well that's pretty good.
- Yeah.
You ever have a data center if you had a hardware failure
and it just won't shut up until you fix it? (chuckles)
- Well, I thought that was the point of a hardware failure
like being noisy.
- [Jake] Yeah.
- Oh, wasn't done!
Wasn't done!
- [Jake] Whatever, Linda.
- [Linus] I thought you said it's past the thing,
is totally working!
Why would not you not tell me?
- Remember Albion that died?
- Okay, that's fair. - Just give it a sec.
I think it's fine.
- That was a good posting sound--
- [Jake] It's good, it's good.
- So we're using our Ironwolf Pro 12 terabyte
but then-- - Not all of them.
And then these drives are from Auntie Dale.
- Are you gonna let me talk
or not, okay? - Did you know
these drives are from Auntie Dale?
- So with a normal rate,
you got the stripey 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 right speed.
That's the biggest problem with it.
For us though, it's not a problem
because this is gonna be offsite
with only a gigabit connection.
For our purposes, this is gonna be more than fine.
It's day two and I've got an update for you guys.
We actually took out the Ironwolf Pros
'cause 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 offsite backup of Whonnock
plus snapshots of older versions of it
so that in case something accidentally gets deleted,
we can (makes clicking sound) go back
and get it real quick styles.
We also went and updated the firmware on our HVAs,
updated the bios on the board,
updated the IPMI firmware.
And this thing is hummin' so well,
I'd say it's a pretty good hummer, you know?
'Cause it doesn't have the greatest power
consumption characteristics and it's heavy.
- [Jake] Is it like an H1 or H2?
- It' a hummer.
Oh yeah, we also added a couple of 500 gig cache 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--
Where'd they go?
Where the heck the, oh, yes.
Ah, yes.
The old 45Drive mechanism for covering up the drives.
- [Jake] Did they update that?
- Oh, it's so much better.
- [Jake] I don't actually mind this one.
- It's fine.
These rods are really stupid.
Ow, dammit, my finger.
- [Jake] 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?
- [Jake] No.
- In the hallway at the Langley House.
- Really? - Yeah,
you would like trip over it in the top of the stairs there.
Now I can show you what that looks like
in the Unraid software.
We're doing a parity 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.
Unraid 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.
- [Jake] And look at that capacity!
- [Linus] I was gonna say another nice thing about Unraid
is it's got a nice easy to understand graphical interface.
So you can see here,
we've got 240 terabytes of offsite storage.
This is kinda 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 HVAs are just rippin'.
- They're going, boys.
You think if I wiggle wobble this thing around a bunch
that read speed will go down?
- [Jake] Seems like a bad idea.
- (chuckles) It's all fine and good
to have a bunch of storage
but we're not gonna be copying things manually
so what are we doin'?
- Backups are only good if it does it itself, right?
You don't wanna rely on human error there
especially us two.
Unlike Whonnock server,
which does a live file backup to (mumbles)
which we built a few days ago.
I guess you guys haven't really heard about that one yet.
Anyways, sensible Jellyfish Fryer,
we're calling it an Auntie Dale now.
It's great, yeah.
Because this thing is running Unraid
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 gonna be doing snapshots
and now because our backup server is running (mumbles),
we could do a set of fast snapshots
but we actually are gonna use a tool called our rsnapshot
which is based on rsync.
A file transfer software
that's very ubiquitous amongst the Linux community.
The fantastic thing about rsnapshot
as the name implies is it takes these snapshots
but they're also de-duplicated
so say we have our 30 terabytes of base footage on Whonnock,
and we add a terabyte a day,
once it does that big backup and say,
we're doing hourly backups and we wanna keep 24 of them
so we'd have a whole day's worth of 'em,
rather than just 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 gonna add the say, 500 gigs
from whatever ingest we just did
and then it will 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 they'll say,
"Oh, hey, that's not there anymore."
So we're just going to throw that out
but we're gonna leave it in your previous snapshot
just in case you need it later.
And then what'll happen is you set a policy
within the software and say,
okay, I wanna keep these snapshots for,
let's say hourly for a week, and then I wanna keep them--
- That's a lot.
- Is that, okay. - 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 Whonnock server
that it is backing up
because it's actually gonna be backing up
everything that was on Whonnock'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
a terabyte a day of new footage.
- I dunno, David, can we?
- Maybe a little bit more.
Okay, whatever, doesn't matter.
We'll say it's a terabyte a day.
30 days of that, that's 30 terabytes
plus the 30-ish terabytes of Whonnock we usually have,
should be well within the 240 we have.
- You give those guys a hundred terabytes,
they fill it.
- He's been doing pretty good so far.
- The good news is,
that Unraid allows easy expansion of your Unraid arrays
so if we just ship a MasterCard into hard drives--
- [Jake] Here's some more Ironwolves!
- 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 rsnapshot hourly backup.
And if we look in our backup thing here,
we got this PDFs tech quickie, and look at that!
It's getting transferred.
- [Linus] Yeah!
- It's pretty slow 'cause 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 offsite backup server is ready to go.
Meaning we have a 3-2-1 backup solution in place
for the first time in
(inhales loudly) years!
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