 Just over a year ago, we deployed an insane solution to our storage problem The petabyte project a petabyte of raw Archival storage. I mean that thing is freaking awesome. We have yet to have any problems with it But there's still a major issue with this deployment It's not geo redundant at all Which means that if there were a fire in the Linus Media Group warehouse, or I mean really any kind of natural disaster We could potentially lose our entire back catalog that is anything that we haven't already uploaded to YouTube So we endeavored to find a way to as inexpensively as possible Back up the entire server. That's all 370 terabytes of Currently stored data plus anything we would want to add in the future. So that's easy enough, right? Right You know what else is easy your Move over to a better chair like the ones from noble chairs their icon series real leather edition gaming chair was designed in Germany and Inspired by luxury car interiors learn more at the link below Just hope they weren't inspired by like the trunk of a luxury car because that'd be very uncomfortable Now there are a lot of different ways that we could go about backing up our server some of them easier and some of them Harder than others, but almost all of them are gonna be limited by one thing our internet bandwidth I mean don't get me wrong. We have a symmetric gigabit connection. I'm not complaining But when you're talking about hundreds of terabytes that are already in the archive and then up to a couple of terabytes a day being added Things can start to take a while like like months a while Now our first idea was to build something locally fill it up with data here using our 10 gigabit network And then ship it off-site a sort of like ah thank you Jake. Oh wow petabyte project part 2 now This solution wouldn't actually Expand our storage capacity because it would just be an identical server or that is to say two servers With the same data on it, but since our internet service provider offers us inexpensive Inexpensive colocation it would actually be very cost-effective from an ongoing standpoint Except for one small problem if we had to buy two more decked out 60 drive Storinators we'd be looking at with the drives included upwards of 70,000 US dollars so converted to Canadian rubles that is getting Dangerously close to six figure territory you can you can take that away so so that eliminates hard drives You good. Okay, just remember lift with your back with a twisting jerking motion. Yeah, all right So that eliminates hard drives What about tape storage a rack mount tape library like this one from HP Enterprise only costs about five to seven thousand dollars and High capacity 12 terabyte LTO 8 tapes are about 160 bucks a piece so for over 500 terabytes of uncompressed backup capacity That's actually looking pretty good by comparison But there's the fact that we'd need two of them and it looks like we're still spending well over 20,000 US dollars Upfront lump sum throw that on the black card You know how it is so hardware based solutions Are not looking too peachy What about? Shoot, what's it called? It's kind of like buzz wordy Disruptive no blockchain. No cloud cloud storage you guys were all Shrieking at us back when we originally built petabyte project for not using cloud storage for our archive in the first place so I think this is where you come in we're gonna Check out some AWS here there buddy. This is glacier. So this is like slow Start the download Okay, so if we just wanted to back up everything we got right now terabytes $1,500 a month Wow plus support, you know, you need support 1667 so if we wanted to store the full what is it about? 760 terabytes that we have like that that we could have Thirty four hundred dollars a month. I Mean I get it I guess these guys have to cover the upfront costs that they're paying for that same hardware and they've got you know Geo replication and all that kind of cool stuff as well. But like Holy balls. Wait, hold on a second. Go go back to that No, no, no, this is before you even actually Pull any data out of it. Okay, you have to pay to pull data out. So let's go the cheapest one Yeah, we want to pull the whole thing Another two grand So so this is great So let's say your your office burns down and you've got to pull all your data out of the cloud You get a nice handy-dandy bill for $2,000 to add insult to your data For $2,000 to add insult to injury. That's that's the slowest. That's the slowest speed So let's say let's say you need it all of it right away real fast Gigabytes Oh Twelve grand no big deal, whatever it's fine. Don't worry about it casual, right? Casual and the crazy part of this is that other enterprise solutions from the likes of Google Microsoft and backblaze aren't priced that differently so What are we gonna do I'm not paying three to five grand a month to store data on tape Wait, just just Google's to have unlimited storage. Well, yeah, but there's no way that's actually unlimited Well, I mean it's gotta be that would be false advertising wouldn't it be unlimited access with the $10 per user tier unlimited cloud storage or One terabyte per user if fewer than five users, so we just get five users. That's like $50 a month That's nothing. It can't be unlimited. I guess we got to try to find out if this loophole is actually gonna work We fired up a Windows 10 VM on our utility unraid server and installed a tool called our clone so Jake's got the unlimited Google Drive account set up and working so it should just be a matter of running the command and Seeing what happens so maybe start with channel super fun Channel super fun. How big is that? Oh Let's see That might take a while but remember guys this is Over a hundred drives spread across two completely separate boxes that are networked to each other Wow, this is taking forever. I think we had I indexed the entire petabyte project And I think we had almost a million files on it. It took like literally I I think a couple hours to do but I did index little thing Windrstat doesn't work. It dies. It like just can't handle that much Okay, so should we see how it's going here? Oh It's not going at all what the heck What oh There's a limit So you were right. Yeah, it is limited. It's limited, but it's limited in a way that the advertising is not false So it's unlimited data. Yeah, as long as it's 750 gigs per day as it turns out Google saw bastards like us coming a mile away and It looks like if you don't want to have your upload cut off You're only able to do 750 gigs a day. Otherwise, you have to wait an additional 24 hours for an upload ban to pass So what we would have to do then is slow our uploads to just around 8 megabytes a second, which would mean that our current 370 terabytes would You got that calculator handy? 370 terabytes Would take about two years So while Google hasn't limited our uploads they have effectively made it completely impractical for us to abuse their upload ban For us to abuse their system this way Yes, that makes sense. Oh Wait, nope, we're not defeated yet new plan so You're actually required to pay for a minimum of 5 G suite accounts in order to unlock that unlimited storage tier, but That got us thinking and actually I'm gonna give Jake full credit for this idea What if we used that limitation? limitation to our advantage Check this out. So it turns out that the 750 gig per day upload cap is Per each one of our users here So by just adding a couple more accounts user six here and mr. Jake timey We can actually end up even if we limit each account to not go over 750 kids a day We can still end up maxing out our upload speed to drive at about 40 to 45 megabytes a second now It's not the prettiest solution But this has been going for a week and each one of our instances here has now done about four terabytes of data Yeah, it's a lot of data a lot of data So conclusion time then I guess I mean for now there's there's no guarantee whatsoever that Google Isn't gonna shut down this workaround and there's a fair number of Googlers out there I think that watch our videos so us making this video sort of increases our chances, but for now at Zero upfront cost and 70 dollars a month for our 7g suite accounts. That's less than a thousand dollars a year We have got what is quite literally the least expensive multi terabyte backup solution that you could have We're basically terrible people. I'm okay with it though I can live with myself on the plus side though this supports encryption on upload and download It does and there are no fees for pulling the data down in the event of some kind of a disaster I mean who knows how fast it's gonna be that helps me sleep better at night So there you go, we're pretty happy even if anyone watching at Google isn't Hi, are you too brep? I don't know if I'm sorry to tell people your name. 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