 Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel this is Daniel Rosalier, thought I'd give you a quick tour of my data and backup hub because data and storage and backup is something I'm really interested in. This is where I backup and store all my YouTube videos. So what we have here is this Ethernet cable comes off a load balancing router so we actually have redundant internet supply into the NAS itself. This is a pretty small urban apartment so naturally it would be nice to have this somewhere more accessible and better space but for the moment this is where we have space for it. This is the Synology DS920 plus NAS which Synology sent me a few years ago, two years ago. I think I was the first person in Israel to actually get my hands on this because it came straight from the manufacturer and I did some interesting reviews on it. So this is the NAS, it's a Forbey NAS and the one improvement I need to make is to put this NAS onto a UPS. I've tried to keep everything labeled, this label is just a little joke, my data management center but I try to keep labels on every plug so I kind of know what's doing what and I try my best with cable management with these little velcro poles you can see here on the back of the Ethernet switch. This is the Ethernet switch that's coming off the router. So the other thing I have in my data management hub is USB type 3 cable coming into the front of the NAS and that leads around the back and off to this HDD enclosure which you can see I've labeled Archival. So I've mentioned on my YouTube channel that my current approach for data backup for these YouTube videos is that I put the important stuff up to the cloud and then a lot of the stock and bureau and the raw takes I just put into cold storage. So that's why I have this HDD enclosure permanently connected to the NAS itself and I just spin this up periodically, I don't leave it running all the time. Whatever disk I'm writing, what I need to power it up. I think that's on now, it should be blinking. There we go. I like HDDs because they're physical media and you can see what's going on here so that's just powered on. And what I do is I'm currently burning or doing cold storage onto a terabyte HDD bit by bit. So once a week I'll spin it up and I'll dump about 10 or 20 gigs of video data from the NAS onto this and that will fill up over about probably six months. When I'm finished with this I'll take out the finished hard drive and I'll put it into a case and store it so you can see I've already filled up two of these hard drives so we're on a video backup three already. And I have a spreadsheet where I try to make some notes about what's going on each drive and what dates approximately it contained. And you know, it obviously just takes about two minutes to flip out hard drive and then enclosure. What else do I do? Oh yeah, the final thing I want to show. I have as well a hard drive cloner. So this is a cool piece of gear. Well, cool for people interested in this kind of stuff. HDD hard drives. This will take a 3.5 or a 2.5 inch form factor. 3.5 HDD, 2.5 HDD source target. I like it. Everything's very clearly labeled. And the beauty of this is that it can actually work. You can see on the inside it's got everything you need to read. And this is actually capable of offline replication. So let's say I fill up a hard drive and I want to duplicate that quickly to another one to keep that off-site. I can just put it in clone mode or PC mode. PC mode I can use it as an enclosure. Clone mode is the one here for working totally offline. And then I just press start and it'll write from source onto target. So you clearly don't want to get the mixed up with your source here. And that's something I also do for off-site, keeping a copy of these in a friend's house. So that's pretty much the data management hub at the moment. I'm always working on my new approaches for archival, waiting on my first M-disk burner and M-disk spindle. And that's going to be fun as well. So this is just my sort of attempt to be as assiduous as I can in keeping an archive backup of all my video producing efforts I'm doing currently.