From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Thu, 20 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:   
      
   > D  writes:   
   >   
   >>> I decided to host my everything.  I'm running notqmail with some patches   
   >>> on top.  My phone e-mail checker is K9, which I believe is actually   
   >>> Thunderbird.  But it turns out that now there's the Thunderbird for   
   >>> Android, too.  It looks the same as K9, except that it's blue instead of   
   >>> red.  On the desktop, I run Gnus with an IMAP4 server local.  And it's   
   >>> not over---I also run fdm to fetch my mail from my own server to me   
   >>> locally.  So, yes, it's very complicated.  And I'm not even close to   
   >>> finish because I didn't talk about public-inbox and mailing lists, which   
   >>> is involved with Gnus because it's where I read and write mail.  It's   
   >>> almost a life project.   
   >>>   
   >>> But it's fun to do these things *if* you have the free time.   
   >>   
   >> This is the truth! It is fun! =) My at home self hosting is limited to   
   >> 2 x 2 bay NAS boxes (in two separate countries with replication   
   >> between them), 1 x radxa zero with kodi on it, which pulls movies from   
   >> one of the NAS boxes, and a backup server which receives backups from   
   >> my laptop and my fathers laptop.   
   >>   
   >> That's about it, when it comes to personal self-hosting.   
   >   
   > You know, I have not worked on backup yet. :) I've done a lot of work on   
   > this system and I don't really have a backup, except for one project or   
   > two that I happen to once in a while push some commits to a remote   
   > server.  But my remote server doesn't have a backup strategy either.   
   > And my needs are pretty simple.  If I can stop to just write a Makefile   
   > that copies files to a remote server, that will keep me safe.  Gotta   
   > stop to do this.   
   >   
   > I also have some unallocated space on my solid state drive.  OpenBSD is   
   > able to dump partitions and using these dumps for recovery.  It could be   
   > something that would be very effective, too.  Gotta get some things out   
   > of the way here first and start new projects.  I'm taking my chances for   
   > now.   
   >   
      
   I recommend restic, alternatively for a more home made feeling, rsync.   
   Both have worked really well for me, and restic seems to have matured very   
   well the past couple of years.   
      
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