You can buy a rack that’s sound insulated and uses a really large exhaust fan. It’s still going to be loud unless you keep the room cool.

Best bet is to flip it. The components might be ok to reuse, the mainboard probably is not atx.

But you can probably find a compatible mainboard for cheap.

Use a cloud host for offsite storage unless you have a friend that will swap offsite backup storage with you.

Probably not. This rosy app is tailored to salon stuff and honestly looks really good.

Sounds a lot like a library system.

Your basically setting up and email server with a gateway service for inbound and outbound mail delivery.

This is typically called a secure email gateway. I’m not sure if there are any designed for personal use.

Is GLPI + OCS Inventory still around?

I got this because it’s almost fully enclosed. Most of the noise comes from an open rear door which this doesn’t have, and an open front door which this sort of has. It’s not very loud when the hvac is set to a reasonable level, even though it’s pulling air through 4 fans on the top.

I have additional sound deadening material if I need to apply it but I’m not there yet.

I’m eyeing 3-5 more 1U servers though so maybe I’ll need to do it.

Business in front…

Unpowered free 48 port switches are cheaper than block off plates.

Can’t hear either over my tinnitus

Like, a calendar app?

If I need to buy something off the shelf I’m looking at unifi.

Sounds like you’re missing an on-site copy on different storage and an offsite copy.

The amount of security threat encouragement in these comments is impressive.

Most backup software has incremental backup and retention policies. It will create a first full backup, then merge incrementals into the full based on your retention policy.

Retaining folder structure and file metadata only is unusual. You’ll want to export that info in some other way and exclude those items from backup.

Nope, bad idea.

LTT is garbage. Remember when they made news by not backing up their stuff and lost it all on some homemade nas?

It offers some other features like hybrid access to data,If my nas isn’t available I can access it from their cloud. There’s also some identity services.

Backup to 2nd nas.

Important stuff gets backed up to cloud storage. Whatever is cheapest.

In my case Synology c2 cloud was cheapest.