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[Grégoire <gregoire AT fripost.org>]

Hello everyone,

We need to discuss data storage for the association.

Here is the current situation, to the best of my knowledge:
- we have a 1TB USB hard drive, which is 98% full with footage from
2011, 2012 & 2013.
- We have the VPS with the web site which stores some files in git repos
and in the wiki (pdfs and other small files)
- There is some old videos and other files on ffkp's NAS, which we also
use to publicly serve the ogv version of the videos.

(I also have a black, 500GB 2.5 inches hard drive on which I
received this year's videos which no one has claimed yet and I have no
idea who that belongs to.)

A few things that could be improved:
- ownership: the fact that we don't own the server of the videos means
that we may loose it if ffkp needs it (more on that below)
- data safety: there is not much redundancy and protection against disk
failure or other potential problems
- accessibility: it'd be nice if we could upload thy the video footage
directly from the conference and give everyone access to them. This was
the main source of delay for publishing the videos this year.
- archiving and sharing: uploading and updating files on the wiki is a
bit cumbersome, and git repositories don't play well with big binary
files

Now, ffkp, who owns the NAS from which we serve the ogv version of the
videos, would like to use it for other purposes. But since the hw is
already a few years and since we are currently using it, they suggested
to sell it to us for a reduced price (2000:- compared to approximately
9000:- when they bought it)

The specs are: readynas ultra 4 bays, atom CPU, 1gb ram with 3x2TB
drives (~4TB available in RAID)

I think that, although it doesn't solve everything, this is a convenient
partial solution, as almost everything is already set-up, and a
relatively cheap one. But we may prefer to buy a newer model or maybe
there is an other alternative?

One other possibility would be to decide that we don't want to keep the
raw videos once we published the ogv file. We would still need somewhere
to host the encoded videos from but it would drastically reduce the
required storage space.


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