Rotating backups with restic
A weekly prune with --keep-daily 7 --keep-weekly 4 keeps the repository small enough
for a cheap object storage bucket. Remember to test a restore at least once a quarter.
Short notes on self-hosting, backups and home networking.
A weekly prune with --keep-daily 7 --keep-weekly 4 keeps the repository small enough
for a cheap object storage bucket. Remember to test a restore at least once a quarter.
A cron job that renders RSS into plain HTML turned out to be faster and calmer than any hosted reader I have tried so far.
For one machine, a ten line shell script and an email alert beat a full metrics stack.