Tootfinder

I love the fact that switching out a failing SSD just involved formatting the new SSD, copying the files over via `rsync`, powering off the computer, and swapping the new SSD in for the old one. I did have to make a minor tweak to the `fstab` because I decided to go with XFS, but the down time for the computer was only for as long as it took me to get the SSD swapped in.
#linux

Well I'm glad I got one NAS backing up to the other last week because I accidentally wiped my Jellyfin library last night.
A long running rsync command got everything back in place. Whew!

Duplicati is in the process of saving my ass again, but their backup restores are extremely slow.
Their web interface is neat and the handling is more or less intuitive, but I think I'm going back to the rsync & cron script formula.
It's what I've done on my server all my life until I installed Docker, but in this case I'm going back to my simple origins.
#docker

You know, I still never got to the bottom of how I will cope with new storage devices being 4K native.
The problem I experience is that if I bitwise copy a virtual machine's block device from a 512B storage device to a 4KB storage device, it can no longer be booted. The (DOS MBR) partition table is wrong.
I haven't been able to come up with a way to do this without rsync of data filesystem to filesystem, which is not feasible for customer data.

Now it's time to move Plex's data library off-server. This one is slightly larger because [insert reasons here].
#homelab #plex

I maintain a heterogeneous MSP environment for backup which consists of a collection of sh scripts (they mostly run on FreeBSD) with (c) notes dating back to 2004, with 5 authors, 4 of whom are no longer my cow-orkers. As the unfortunate 5th, I am still doing tweaks to catch edge & corner cases >20y after the 1st author had the idea that rsync, shell, mt, & standard POSIX tools could be assembled into a decent free backup world.
Use Python. Or Go. Or even Perl.

Things I find slightly annoying: tracking down how to create a local #CachyOS mirror from information on the internet. The only bits of information I have is that (1) it's possible, and (2) you can use either `rsync` or `syncthing`...the search continues.
#homelab