Jan-Lukas Else

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Monitoring my restic backups with Uptime Kuma

Published on in 👨‍💻 Dev

I have a couple of restic backup containers running across my servers, all based on the resticker image. It’s a basic part of every server configuration I use. Backups are executed on cron schedules. But until today, I had no visibility into whether they actually succeeded. So I had no idea one of my backups didn’t run for some weeks due to some “locks” in the repository.

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How I sync my Nextcloud with an S3 bucket using Drone CI and rclone

Published on in 👨‍💻 Dev

A few days ago, an OVH data center went up in flames and was completely destroyed. This reminded me that it is important to store backups in another place on earth if possible, so better not in the same data center as the server that might burn down.

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