Self-Hosted

I bought two 10 TB Toshiba drives for backups. One receives weekly restic backups. The other is still waiting for me to install it at another location. Together, they cost about $500, and the remote copy I bought one of them for still doesn’t exist. In the previous post, I counted those drives as part of the cost of protecting my data. This time, I want to explain what the working drive actually does, which data I chose to back up, and what remains unfinished. ...

Sherlock watches over the server with no top cover. I currently have about 3 TB of data in my main array, but I’ve bought five HDDs. One holds important data. Another protects the array if that drive fails. Two more are for backups. The fifth holds movies, TV shows, and other files I can replace. Whenever I try to explain all those purchases to myself, I have to remember where this started: I wanted to control the floor heating. ...

I have wanted to start a blog for a long time. I tried a few times, even considered creating a YouTube channel, but I always came back to writing. Over the years, I have come across many small technical blogs where someone documented a very specific problem or solution. I’ve always liked these indie blogs. They may look a little old-fashioned, but that doesn’t make them any less useful. For notes, ideas, thoughts, and conference talk drafts, I already use Obsidian. I absolutely love this application. ...