Backup

This article shows how to synchronize your Frigate NVR recordings to offsite cloud storage for backup and safekeeping in case your onsite NVR is stolen by a burglar. Toolkit: Backblaze + rclone + Systemd Service Script I’m using Backblaze as cloud storage because it’s fast and inexpensive. It also offers temporary immutability, preventing burglars who gained access to the source machine from deleting uploaded recordings for a configurable length of time. The backup job is left to rclone, a modern file copy and sync tool for a multitude a cloud storage providers. A custom systemd service controls the backup process via a little script. To ensure low upload latency, it monitors Frigate’s recordings directory for changes and invokes rclone immediately when a new file has been created.

This article explains how to set up restic (with the resticprofile wrapper) for automated scheduled backups of your (dockerized) WordPress server. The backups are protected from ransomware through temporary immutability, which makes it much harder for attackers to delete your data.

This article explains how to set up a Grafana dashboard to monitor restic/resticprofile backup operations. This post is part of my series on home automation, networking & self-hosting that shows how to install, configure, and run a home server with (dockerized or virtualized) services such as Home Assistant and ownCloud.

This article explains how to set up restic (with the resticprofile wrapper) for automated scheduled backups of your home server. The backups are protected from ransonmware through temporary immutability, which makes it much harder for attackers to delete your data. This post is part of my series on home automation, networking & self-hosting that shows how to install, configure, and run a home server with (dockerized or virtualized) services such as Home Assistant and ownCloud.

This is a list of simple things that will protect you from nearly all the real-world IT security issues affecting individuals and SOHO users. 1. Install All the Updates What Should You Do? Enable automatic updates wherever possible Don’t use obsolete software versions Why Is It Important? Older software versions often have known security issues for which exploits are readily available. This means that even script kiddies can easily attack large numbers of users.

Linux famously stores all of its settings in files, making it easy to inspect, query, or backup the configuration with a plethora of tools, including Git. However, given that Git was conceived by the Linux community, there is surprisingly little integration. As a developer, I am used to managing everything with Git. Depending on my current degree of paranoia, I may put nearly or literally everything into version control. So where’s Git for Linux config files?

It’s 2018, and backing up Hyper-V hosts is solved, right? I certainly expected it to be when I took on the task of finding a simple and reliable way to back up three hosts colocated in a large datacenter. This article summarizes my journey and the findings resulting from it.

I am an infrastructure guy (by heart - and a developer by nature). As such, topics like maintaining my own webserver (which I don’t - yet) or configuring backup deeply fascinate me. I am also mildly paranoid with regards to the safety and, especially as of late, the privacy of my data. That makes finding the perfect backup strategy a very interesting occupation, indeed.

In my ongoing quest for the perfect way to back up my personal data I have tweaked the setup yet again. Most of what I wrote nearly three years ago (How to Build a State of the Art Backup System for Your Personal Data) still stands, so I will focus on off-site cloud backup in this article.

As before this is mainly a condensed and beautified version of my twitter postings. You can get them unfiltered and without delay by following me. Office 2010 Here is a nice overview of the new Office suite by Mark Wilson. By the way: Although available as 32-bit and 64-bit versions, the 32-bit version is the default and recommended by Microsoft for the time being.

This article is part of Helge’s Profile Toolkit, a set of posts explaining the knowledge and tools required to tame Windows user profiles. This may seem like a silly question, but whether or not to include roaming user profiles in your enterprise backup solution may greatly affect both the performance and the cost of that solution. With that in mind, it is only logical to pose the question if the content stored in user profiles is valuable enough to be backed up.

Like most people, I have been accumulating personal data over the decades. While some of it is not too important, other pieces are priceless, especially my pictures and videos. Losing those files would be a nightmare. That kept me searching for the ideal backup mechanism for several years. Although I would not dare say I have found the perfect solution, I have learned a lot in the process and can give solid recommendations. Hence this article.

My familiy and me generate data all the time, mostly pictures and videos. I store it all on a PC in my small home network. That PC acts as a file server and, as all servers, needs to be backed up. The mere thought of losing all that information gives me the creeps. After initially copying all data to an external USB drive using an advanced rsync algorithm I switched to a more secure method - at least, that was my plan. Storing data offsite on the internet provides the benefit of not losing priceless photographs and videos when desaster strikes your home. Reading about the online backup service mozy.com, which offers unlimited storage capacity for a mere $ 4.95 per month, I signed up immediately and underwent the painful procedure of uploading roughly 180 GB during several months to mozy. That went relatively well, the client software had only small problems now and then. When all my files were uploaded, I was content. Until I decided to upgrade the hard drive of my home “server” hosting all my data.