Just putting this here for easy reference, or to help any random passers by. I know there are tools that are supposed to automate this like rsnapshot but I was disappointed to see that rsnapshot is probably unmaintained On top of that, this looked like something easy enough to roll…
I was doing some research to buy a new hard disk to store my digital life on. The hard disk industry is going through interesting times the last few years. Disk capacities mostly plateued, rotational speeds have slowed down and for the first time we see bigger drives being slower…
At home I have small always-on NAS aka file server aka headless linux machine. It has served me well for almost half a decade. I have gradually migrated all my data on that server. It also serves as an ad-hoc VPN, web server, torrent box and more. By both need…