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Cake day: June 15th, 2024

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  • I use git and commit configs/setup/scripts/etc. to it. I at least have a road map for how to get everything back this way. Testing this can be difficult, but it really depends on what you care about really.

    • Testing my kopia backups of important data? that I manually test every once n’ while.
    • Testing if my ZFS setup script is 100% identical to my setup? that’s not that important, as long as I have a general idea I can figure out the gaps and improve the script for the next time around. Obviously, you can spend a lot more time ensuring scripts and what not stays consistent, but it depends on what you care about!

    For a lot of my service config, git has always worked well for me and I can go back to older configs if needed. You can get super specific here and save versions in git, then have something update the versions (e.g. WUD)



  • HA integrated with homekit well. I like to tinker, but hate doing interface/dashboard work. I did find an auto dashboard for HA which has made our lives easier. My long term hope is to use a voice assisstant for the rest.

    Since it sounds like youre handy already, i would really dig into the dashboard side since that will dictate how easy it is for your family to use.









  • I have been playing around with it. Ended up buying more recently of the lifetime stuff. Tried their android app and windows/web interface. Web interface has been 100% rock solid. Android app not so much:

    • Camera sync sometimes doesn’t sync all the pictures. Sometimes it doesn’t show synced pictures either, I have to manually navigate to the folder. Not sure whats up.
    • Android app has a long delay on starting up sometimes.
    • Poor battery optimization comparatively speaking to alternatives (nextcloud & gphotos)
    • App occasionally crashes, but that’s stopped recently.

    Also, just full disclosure I am on Graphene, so sometimes things are a bit different. Recently, I have started to setup their rclone connection to use it as an offsite encrypted backup of ~ half a terabyte of important shit. Its my 2nd offsite backup and I am planning to regularly test that repository (using Kopia). While I am happy with it so far (outside the android app), I am still a bit wary on how reliable they are. They have been around for a few years now, so I feel more confident, just overall being cautious until I see a public audit of their backend. The client code is all OS (supposedly, I haven’t confirmed beyond the rclone code), so you can check that if you like (which should at least confirm local encryption before transit).