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Hosting your own services. Preferably at home and on low-power or shared hardware.

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Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters?s (lemmy.nocturnal.garden)

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What's going on on your servers? Smooth operations or putting out fires?

I got some tinkering time recently and migrated most of my Docker services to Komodo/Forgejo. Already merged some Renovate PRs to update my containers which feels really smooth.

Have to restructure some of the remaining services before migrating them and after that I want to automate config backup for my OpnSense and TrueNAS machines.

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[–] confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

I bought a second USB SSD which has now become the second backup SSD. I ended up skipping my switch to Podman because I got invested in writing another script.

I'm not interested in having my backup drives automatically decrypt and mount at startup but those were the only guides I could find. I still want to manually type my password and wanted an easier way handle that.

I ended up writing this script which turned the 4 lines of code I was using before into a 400+ line single file script.

Once I pair it with my rsync script, I'll be able to remotely, automatically and interactively decrypt, mount, update my backup, unmount and re-encrypt my USB SSD. The script also has tests to make sure the mount directory is ready for use and not sending anything with rsync if the encrypted SSD is not mounted. I just finishes writing the script and now I have to integrate it into my systems.

I was originally going to add the second backup to my local-only network Pi server but I think I'll add it to my web facing Pi server so I am able to access it remotely. I would feel a lot more comfortable knowing that data on there isn't easily accessible because it's not auto-mounting.

Other than that, things are boring and boring is good.