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Cake day: October 16th, 2023

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  • I (finally!) installed Tube Archivist last week and went through my library of already archived YT videos and saved them manually in TA (it’s the easiest way if you haven’t saved the metadata to go with the video, which I hadn’t for the oldest videos). Out of almost 1000 videos over five years or so, maybe 5% have gone private or is gone from YT. And it was mostly videos I really wanted to keep. Now comes the dirty work of trying to find the metadata for those missing videos since I do have them locally. I have done some research around how to do it, but if anyone has actually figured it out it would be nice to know!


  • A NAS is ”Network Attached Storage”. Basically a server for your home. First go to to synology.com and look for their consumer options and primarily their (included) software such as ”synology photos” and ”HyperBackup” and then go to the synology subreddit and search for ”DS423+” and/or ”DS923+” which should be your primary options unless you want to go cheap. There are several posts a day there from people contemplating those with a similar usecase as yours. That should get you started!




  • You basically do the other way around. Buy a NAS for your primary storage since it provides redundancy (RAID) and that you can reach it from anywhere. Then you attach external drives to it for one of the backups of the data from the NAS. The second copy should go to another physical place. The cloud or a friends house. It’s called a 3-2-1 backup strategy.