I think it’s great you brought up RAID but I believe when Immich or any software mess things up it’s not recoverable right?
RAID is not a backup, no. It’s redundancy. It’ll keep your service up and running in the case of a disk failure and allow you to swap in a new disk with no data loss. I don’t know how Immich works but I would put it in a container and drop a snapshot anytime I were to update it so if it breaks I can just revert.
I recommend it over a full disk backup because I can automate it. I can’t automate full disk backups as I can’t run dd reliably from a system that is itself already running.
It’s mostly just to ensure that I have config files and other stuff I’ve spent years building be available in the case of a total collapse so I don’t have to rebuilt from scratch. In the case of containers, those have snapshots. Anytime I’m working on one, I drop a snapshot first so I can revert if it breaks. That’s essentially a full disk backup but it’s exclusive to containers.
edit: if your goal is to minimize downtime in case of disk failure, you could just use RAID
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.
Yeah same, I was reading the script very confused
Because it’s easier to sign up than it is to cancel.
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 don’t get it. You think laws will stop existing if we stop paying some fat cats for sitting on some copyrights?
I also don’t care what I’m allowed to do, I don’t believe in copyrights, so you can’t really argue in favor of it to me.
That’s semantics. They’re charging it because they’re afraid you’re copying copy-protected materials, which is piracy. It’s a piracy tax.
is not about paying for pirate copies, but it’s a compensation for the loss due to the right to a private copy.
Sounds an awful lot like a piracy tax… We pay this tax on any device which can store bits, it’s not just some storage mediums. If you buy a phone, you’re paying this tax to a “”“non-profit”“” org called CopyDan whose sole job is to make sure a few select fat cat copyright holders get paid. If I don’t break their copyright, I still have to pay as if I did. Therefore, it’s a piracy tax.
Actually it might be blankmedieafgiften, that sounds far more correct. I was having trouble finding the exact term and ChatGPT was very confident (I know…) when I eventually gave up and asked it.
I don’t have to worry about any of this because I live in Denmark! It is not possible for me to pirate stuff because it implies that I did not pay, which I did as there is a special piracy tax!
We call it ‘blankmedieafgiften’.
we call it ‘kulturarvsafgiften’ and apparently you can’t google it which I’m not gonna imply any conspiracies about but yknow
such as TerraMaster
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…
If you don’t want a certain geographic of people on Tor, then you don’t believe in Tor.
I’m sure there’s ways to do it, but I can’t do it and it’s not something I’m keen to learn given that I’ve already kind of solved the problem :p