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#backups

2 posts

  1. 2 min read

    My new monitoring paged me twice on day one. Good.

    A flaky HTTP/2 ping and a backup job that ran fine by hand but not under systemd. Both were real bugs, and both got caught.

  2. 5 min read

    Getting a homelab ready to run for three months without me

    No sleep, a watchdog, key-only SSH, a wiped HDD turned into storage and backups, a second way in, and an outside alarm for when the box goes dark.