One backup on site on a different medium
One offline backup.
Backup on a different medium is archaic advice unless you’re willing to fork $$$ out for a tape drive system. DVDs don’t cut it in the era of 20Tb HDDs. I’d argue that HDD is the only practical media currently for > 4Tb at less than enterprise scale. Backblaze might be considered a different medium I guess.
I like SearXNG, I pipe it through a gluetun vpn tunnel to mix up my traffic with others. I turn off google and use a !g bang when really necessary. One of the killer features is setting up blacklists for content farms (see config file) which has helped my dev searches immensly, also bye fandom etc.
Anything can be a feed with a bit of determination and a little knowhow ;)
less so with TCO considering the power budget…laptops however…
Your biggest bang for buck is with cheap second hand drives, keep a spare on hand to rebuild the array / volume when one dies. You should be aware that the number of drives in the array directly affects the amount of usable space, 2 drives 50% of total available (a direct mirror, to compensate for the loss of one drive), 3 drives you get 66%, 5 gets you 80%. Say you get 6 4Tb drives, keep one as a spare and the remaining 5 will give you 16Tb usable (with one lost to parity so you can survive one disk failure). You then immediately want to save for a 16 Tb external drive for offline, preferably offsite backup (RAID is not Backup!). As others have wisely said, anything can be used to host, but aim at the most power efficient. If necessary get a PCI card for more SATA or SAS ports. Identify high value, small files, documents, current work, personal photos, source code and so forth and arrange for cloud backup, preferably with local encryption so you needn’t trust the cloud provider, preferably in at least two places (so one can go tits up or enshittify without bothering you). You’d be surprised what fits into a free 10Gb account if you triage well.
Good luck.
Kodi will let you switch engines to VLC.
How do you feel about having to specify a different file for all of your containers and volumes?
I have made my peace, it’s the price of not giving docker root. I just open a Kate session and it’s all there, nicely broken into sections.
No one ever got fired for using intel nics, it’s worth it for the time it’ll save.
Not sure yet, agree it’s not as nice to look at as YAML, but at least it’s prettier than the alternative systemd.service implementation, and it’s been rock solid so far. Time will tell, I’m sure pods will come and it seems to be what redhat sees as their direction. A method for automatically generating them from docker YAML (and hopefully vice-versa) would go a looong way towards speeding adoption.
once the containers are running after podman-compose you can use podman-generate-systemd to create a systemd services. Helped me move a rather large compose file to a bunch of services. My notes weren’t the best, sorry, but that’s the gist.It got me moved. I’ve now moved on to .container files for new stuff, which generates them on the fly. Need to move my old services over, but they work and who’s got the time…
Concur, podman doesn’t (have to) have root, and has autoupdate and podman-compose to use docker files. Containers are cool, Docker less so.
On Calibre, suck it up and backup the directory, it is significantly the best ebook library…
gluetun is life, look at a local searxng via gluetun proxy for ameliorating search engine enshittification.
otherwise, seems sensible…
I use gluetun for vpn proxying, it’s rock solid and has shadowsocks and tinyproxy (I run two instances, one localish openvpn and one out of country wireguard, gluetun don’t care), that gets around port opening.
Valid, and I do help where I can (check my history if you care). This post just tweaked my twee radar, to which I generally respond, gently, “learn to think for yourself”, parental pattern I guess.
Oh you summer child (I upvoted, but won’t waste an hour of my life listening to random internet stuff). I don’t think it’s lack of education, in this world it’s very possible to educate yourself, it’s a lack of understanding (due to misinformation and corporate sponsored laziness) the implications of that easy click, or of what others can get without your consent. Privacy isn’t dead, it’s just now mostly for the rich.
A NAS is a standalone device that uses low power and solves your problem, but is expensive (synology, openNAS etc) an external drive is not a NAS it’s an offline backup (a worthy thing, and perhaps your priority for data integrity / an actual backup). As Asked, get an external USB3 caddy for drives and any well reputed SSD, Crucial, Samsung ,etc…
Sweet. May I suggest crossposting to privacy and explaining why this is better than rsync…(or, hopefully,uses it, much trust there, (doing backups with randos is for chumps)
Not ATX as requested, but I’ve had my eye on the Jonsbo N1 ITX for a NAS build. Sounds like you’re space constrained, so worth a look ?
Sure, but the point of an offline backup is to disconnect it when not in use, rendering it immune to ransomware, accidental deletions, lightning strikes etc. Plug in every week or whatever, do your backup, disconnect, sleep easy. I use an external usb hdd caddy (note that one needs a firmware update to work with bigger disks)