What I did is set up a NAS at my parents house, which I can log into as well for near zero cost offsite backups.

And at home I have a couple of local drives with borgbackups.

Don’t give him any ideas…

Except for distros like Apartheid Linux … maybe uncreate those.

How about unpersonal devices, since personal devices are uhm you know… usually traceably tied to your person.

This keeps backups efficient since you can ask the filesystem to only send the changes instead of going over all the files and figuring out what has changed, so it’s probably a lot faster.

Aaaah!

I use borg with borgmatic. I just back up / (which includes home) and exclude some folders I don’t want (like /mnt or /tmp).

It does the same as you just said.

I have 20 borg snapshots of my nearly full 1tb drive which takes about 400gb of space on my NAS.

I do it at the file structure level, not at the block device level as the article suggests. Why would I want to back it up at the block device level instead?

You misunderstood my question, because what you said is true either way with borg.

The question is, what is the advantage of backing up the whole subvolume “block device” vs just / file structure.

I don’t really understand the advantage of backing up the whole btrfs volume.

I’ve recently looked into https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii because it has autoimport for my banks API.

It uses mariadb by default and the GUI looked relatively simple.

Whether it fits your needs depend on your budgeting method.

It’s possible. You have to tick a setting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect

It’s a pretty good deal compared to proton mail pricing at least. But be aware that starting from the second year it will be 96€, as the deal is only for the first year.

Where funny?

Use an instance that does not block VPN.

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/92

note: this is pretty much temporary until we get first class support for Traefik

They seem to be working on a traefik middleware, but in the meantime there is a guide to set it up manually with traefik.

what about a local, encrypted backup

Every time freetube is broken, I have to use grayjay interim, which pushes a fix almost immediately, while freetube takes a couple of days.

I wasn’t able to find it online. It came with the house.

It is a flat key that has grooves, normal teeth on the edges, two parallel rows of sparse dimples on the top and two balls that can sink and rise, one large one small.

If anybody knows where to buy more of these, let me know. I only found ones that have some of those features, but not all at once.

I can’t share a photo nor company name since I am out of town for a while and I stored it away. It was some european b2b manufacturer iirc.

You could already do that by just taking a photo of the key, or using a pen and paper, or press it in a piece of cheese. Basically, half of the stuff one already has at hand could be used to achieve the same goal.

Also I am glad that my keys/locks have security features from the current millenium. Makes it a pain to pick or duplicate (yes even non maliciously, the local locksmith needed to order specially stuff just for me when I needed an extra key)