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Fascinating idea!

I’m using rustic, a lock-free rust-written drop-in-replacement of restic, which (I’m referring to restic and therefore in extension to rustic) supports always-encrypted, deduplicating, compressed and easy backups without you needing to worry about whether to do a full- or incremental-backup.

All my machines run hourly backups of all mounted partitions to an append-only repo at borgbase. I have a file with ignore pattern globs to skip unwanted files and dirs (i.e.: **/.cache).

While I think borgbase is ok, ther’re just using hetzner storage boxes in the background, which are cheaper if you use them directly. I’m thinking of migrating my backups to a handfull of homelabs from trusted friends and family instead.

The backups have a randomized delay of 5m and typically take about 8-9s each (unless big new files need to be uploaded). They are triggered by persistent systemd-timers.

The backups have been running across my laptop, pc and server for about 6 months now and I’m at ~380 GiB storage usage total.

I’ve mounted backup snapshots on multiple occasions already to either get an old version of a file, or restore it entirely.

There is a tool called redu which is like ncdu but works on restic/rustic repos. This makes it easy to identify which files blow up your backup size.

That woul’ve been: Minetest Immortal

If you connect to the network and open firefox, it will display a toast to open the corresponding captive portals page. You can then login through that. Given that your VPN isn’t blocking unencrypted connections etc.

Extrapolation of partial knowledge warning

I assume the network advertises a captive portals url and identifies you based on your MAC address.

The config is server-side (router).

What do you use it for? How’s the daily-driver experience?

Is something like this defined in a standard somewhere?

RFC3389 ?

Thats what I do as well. It makes it easy to seperate between logical units.

You’re playing Devils Advocate, and you probaly know it xD

Anyway, I prefer NixOS for it’s declarativity, reproducibility and immutability.

Example: You want nginx with acme setup? Just tell it to, and NixOS will figure out the steps to reach the desired state.

• NixOS
  • disko + nixos-anywhere (automatic partitioning & remote installation of new systems)
  • stylix (system-wide theming)
  • agenix (secret management)
  • impermanence (managing persistent data)
  • nixos containers for sandboxing applications & services (using systemd-nspawn)
• TMPFS as /
• LUKS
  • BTRFS as /nix (might try bcachefs)
  • SWAP partition (= RAM size, to susbend to disk)
• Greetd with TUIgreet (DM)
• SwayFX (WM)
• Kitty & foot (term)
• Nushell (shell)
• Helix (editor)
• Firefox (browser)
• slackhq/nebula (c.f. self-hosted tailscale, connecting my systems beyond double NATs)

EDIT1: fix “DE” -> “DM”