Most “real” news outlets too.

Why do you think that because a person could do something they necessarily will?

I don’t, but in this case, we know it’s not because they got rid of that option. Why? Because the task is infeasible to support. Kinda like you’ve been arguing against this entire time in the face of multiple reasons why people aren’t doing it.

You’re far from the first person to want this, and the devs no longer offer it as a supported method for a reason after all. No one is saying it is impossible, just not something that’s feasible to create and support. This really should not be this hard of a concept to understand.

Well, yeah. Especially when you’ve already been given reasons why it isn’t. But clearly you know better than the devs or people familiar with the product.

So then it isn’t actually that feasible then, otherwise you’d do more than just whine about it on the Internet. Especially when there are valid reasons to not support that method.

Tools like restic and Borg and so critical that you will regret not having had them sooner.

100000%

I just experienced this when a little mini PC I bought <2y ago cooked its nvme and died this month. Guess who has been meaning to set up backups on that guy for months?

Unfortunately, that nvme is D. E. D. And even more unfortunately, that had a few critical systems for the local network (like my network controller/DHCP). Thankfully it was mostly docker containers so the services came up pretty easy, but I lost my DBs so configs and data need to be replicated :(

The first task on the new box was figuring out and automating borg so this doesn’t happen again. I also set up backups via my new proxmox server, so my VMs won’t have that problem too.

Now to do the whole ‘actually testing the backups’ thing.

Then do if for your distribution then. It’s clearly not that difficult, you’ve all but explicitly stated as much.

More or less the same setup, only I used the frigate HA integration to access the feeds. Was very nice up until the machine running frigate cooked the nvme.

Then go do it.

Lol, you don’t know me, or that I’ve literally been there.

And this sense of superiority and refusal to understand or empathize is why hundreds of millions don’t listen to you.

Pot and kettle friend.

Do you even know what that life is like? Working yourself to the bone to feed your family and still staring down the barrel of an election that you tangentially know will harm you in some way?

I’ve done 80hr weeks for years, and it fucking sucks. Check your assumptions, because this sense of superiority is why I ignore people like you. I’ve been there, but I still made the time when I had to with shit like absentee voting. Not everyone has that ability, but don’t pretend like that takes away their agency, even if they have little energy to put to it

No matter who they elect things get worse

“Whether I get a minor laceration or I lose my arm, I’m still going to bleed”

I always forget about :wq, mainly because escing out of interactive mode and hitting ZZ is so much quicker.

Fucking Scunthorpes!

They’re just doing debug Q&A on the rocket. Next time they’re going to fill it with -1 gallons of fuel and see how far it goes.

But making other people miserable is one of their favorite ways of making themselves happy

I’m running HA too, but I’m rocking zigbee stuff with a bit of zwave for outside stuff. Works so well (when I properly program it anyway 🤣)!

And it’s generally a similar, though thicker, consistency.

I’ve been considering adding a wireless door lock to my place, but my home automation platform is entirely self hosted and doesn’t reach out to the net for basically anything.

If there was a way I could leverage the unlimited bandwidth/storage as an offsite backup, that would be amazing, but I’m not sure it would be a great idea backing up stuff to a webserver where there best security I can add it via an .htaccess file.

Your off-site backup solution shouldn’t have to care about that level of security because you should be encrypting your backups before they leave your network. Even if you have a solid backup host in the cloud, you still want to encrypt your backup data before you send it to their hosted repo.

Unless your vendor has a reason to read your backups, they shouldn’t be able to.

Look into FileFlows, I used that after my tdarr server shit the bed to act as my conversion utility for my media libraries. Done a very good job of transcoding my Library into a consistent format.

If you have any inclination to use docker, they offer a generator to make the compose file for you

https://fileflows.com/docs/installation/docker