My method requires that the drives be plugged in at all times, but it's completely automatic.
I use rsync from a central 'backups' container that pulls folders from other containers and machines. These are organized in
/BACKUPS/(machine/container)_hostname/...
The /BACKUPS/ folder is then pushed to an offsite container I have sitting at a friends place across town.
For example, I backup my home folder on my desktop which looks like this on the backup container
/BACKUPS/Machine_Apollo/home/dork/
This setup is not impervious to bitflips a far as I'm aware (it has never happened). If a bit flip happens upstream, it will be pushed to backups and become irrecoverable.
doesn’t this just mean the bots hammer your server looping forever?
Yes
How much processing do you do of those forms
None
It costs me nothing to have bots spending bandwidth on me because I'm not on a metered connection and electricity is cheap enough that the tiny overhead of processing their requests might amount to a dollar or two per year.
I am currently watching several malicious crawlers be stuck in a 404 hole I created. Check it out yourself at https://drkt.eu/asdfasd
I respond to all 404s with a 200 and then serve them that page full of juicy bot targets. A lot of bots can't get out of it and I'm hoping that the driveby bots that look for login pages simply mark it (because it responded with 200 instead of 404) so a real human has to go and check and waste their time.
The point of having the RSS reader somewhere not on my PC is that when I reinstall my PC it's one less thing to configure again. I just open the browser bookmark and there it is exactly as I left it.
Forcing a bunch of neural weights into the public domain doesn't make the data they were trained on also public domain, in fact it doesn't even reveal what they were trained on.
I didn't imply a mass exodus, I'm just telling you that 'linux has issues' isn't a good argument when both W10 and W11 also have issues of the same grade and that it is, in some nerd circles, pushing people into Linux because they'd rather deal with Linux problems than Windows problems.
I switched to full-time Linux this year. One of my programmer friends, whom I never expected to embrace Linux, switched to full-time Linux and is not going back. Our libraries have switched to Linux on all user-facing computers. 2 of my e-friends have approached me about Linux. Another friend is, despite not being a computer nerd, going to switch because Windows is forcing him to- and that's my point. It's not that Linux doesn't have deep flaws inherent to its development model, it's that those flaws are now less significant than those of Windows. Nobody likes Windows 11 and it's pushing people off.
The reputable brand that quietly updated my device in the middle of the night and reset my password to a randomly generated one, locking me out of the device? That brand? The brand that runs their OS off of a USB stick inside the device so it's always a ticking time bomb that might just stop working randomly? That one?
I’ve turned down many self-hosted options due to the complexity of the setup and maintenance.
Do you agree with this?
Yes. If I have to spend an hour reading your documentation just to find out how to run the damn thing, I'm not going to run it.
I hate docker with a passion because it seems like the people who develop on it forego writing documentation because docker "just works" except when it doesn't.
I archived one of my github repos the other day because someone requested I add docker support. It's a project I made specifically to not use docker...
My method requires that the drives be plugged in at all times, but it's completely automatic.
I use rsync from a central 'backups' container that pulls folders from other containers and machines. These are organized in
/BACKUPS/(machine/container)_hostname/...The
/BACKUPS/folder is then pushed to an offsite container I have sitting at a friends place across town.For example, I backup my home folder on my desktop which looks like this on the backup container
/BACKUPS/Machine_Apollo/home/dork/This setup is not impervious to bitflips a far as I'm aware (it has never happened). If a bit flip happens upstream, it will be pushed to backups and become irrecoverable.