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I'd really love it if my projects could finish themselves, but Apparently that's not how it works

Self hosting backups 

@jacket@tech.lgbt yes, it uses ssh as the default transfer mechanism for doing remote backups, and can thus run on any linux server you have access too, provided it has enough storage space for your needs.

I would not recommend anything from amazon, apart from being a terrible company their services tend to be very overpriced as well

@hazelnot yeah it's kind of a pain.. which linux do you have installed?

@hazelnot windows just kinda does that, hence the recommendation being installing linux after windows, or at least booting the installer again to have linux overwrite the bootloader again

repost because we block fosstodon but damn, this really explains the shit well

tuxphones.com/pine-formula/

especially the "trademark formula" listed halfway through

maybe One Day I will do writeups about .town's general infra, the Wireguard reverse proxy setup, and the backup situation

Self hosting backups 

@jacket@tech.lgbt yep, it's an important aspect of (instance) hosting. I've tried a bunch of backup solutions but Borg has been the nicest by far, since you can do append-only (pwned server can't delete it's own backups), encrypted, deduplicated and compressed backups which saves a lot of space.

For hosts i've had a few different solutions; borgbase.com, a buyvm.net server with a storage slab (usually sold out, try buyvmstock.com/ to get notified), and a Hetzner storage box (currently using their borg integration, but considering just sshfs mounting it on a vps and borg'ing to that). My VPS'es back up to the remote backup servers, but also to a machine at home.

On my non-NixOS machines I use the borgmatic wrapper to store/run it's config

we both suck at texting but somehow we make the effort?

ph- 

not sure if camp exhaustion is finally catching up to me or if i'm Down with the Sickness(tm) but i'm so fucking tired

@anarchiv it's a digital thing which i filled in halfways and then got distracted and then have continually been reminding myself about but not actually doing it

ah shit the train was delayed i really hope the bicycle parking is still open when we arrive (closes 1am)

the 'Not to Dissappear' album is very postrocky, very nice

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oh cool, apparently exactly one year ago i had my first negative selftest after isolation again

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