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Accidental Tech Podcast

595: The Best Secret Store

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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0:00.0

If you recall, my backup vortex is not as robust perhaps as Johns, but is robust.

0:08.0

And one part of the backup vortex is a synology, I couldn't even tell the the model number off top my head but a

0:14.4

listener and friend had I completely forgot me a second I reached it scared the poop

0:20.4

out of me but anyways a listener and friend had sent me one that that he the which is a little less than an hour away from here and it was literally the only real purpose it had

0:35.0

was to slur up backups from my sonology here at the house.

0:38.8

Well, there was some real bad thunderstorms that went through the area like a week ago or so.

0:45.2

And I guess wherever my dad and I put this analogy, perhaps it was not on a surge suppressor.

0:50.4

I don't know what happened, but apparently it is dead. I haven't gotten physical

0:54.0

control of it since this happened so I genuinely don't know what the issue is could be

0:58.1

just a power supply it could be something much more you know damaging whatever the case

1:01.9

may be so that's tale of woe number one and

1:05.3

again it could be an easy fix who knows but tale of woe number two is I decided to

1:11.4

take my footstool I I'm sorry, my old synology and bring it back to life so it can

1:16.8

serve as the backup vortex. I had an 1813 plus that synology was kind enough to give to one to all three of us, one a piece,

1:25.3

literally 10 years ago, or 11 now or something.

1:28.3

More I think.

1:29.3

And so it had been my synology up until a few months ago when I got a new one and I just kind of turned it off and basically used it as a footstool.

1:38.0

Well, I brought it back to life and started the backup process and new.

1:43.3

You know, I deleted everything that was on it

1:44.9

because I haven't needed it in months.

1:46.5

And in theory, everything was duplicated

1:48.8

to the new technology.

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