This is your annual reminder to do a snapshot (timeshift or whatever you prefer) before doing relatively minor changes to your system.

I was supposed to be in bed now, but instead I am stuck troubleshooting xorg refusing to start after an apt-get dist-upgrade.

And as far as friendly reminders go, I should’ve given myself an unfriendly reminder beforehand, as it’s not the first time…

UPDATE: Fuck nvidia 545. All my homies hate nvidia 545. 535 4 lyf!

  • danA
    1·
    1 year ago

    Only the changes between snapshots are stored, so the extra disk usage is minimal

    If you want to use a similar approach for backups, Borgbackup is a pretty nice piece of software. I have two backups of my most important files: One on my NAS at home, and one “in the cloud” on a storage VPS (ends up way cheaper than using S3, B2 or anything like that).

      • danA
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’ve got one with HostHatch that’s 10TB of space for $10/month. It was an offer they had during Black Friday 2020. They had a similar offer during Black Friday 2023 but I think it was around $20/month, paid yearly.

        I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and my storage server is in Los Angeles, which is around 10ms round-trip ping time from my home internet connection.

        Hetzner is good too. They have relatively cheap “storage boxes” that are a shared environment rather than a VPS. You don’t get proper SSH access, but they do support FTPS, SFTP, Samba, Borgbackup, Restic, rclone, rsync and WebDAV. https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

        Borgbackup encrypts the backups, so the host won’t be able to actually view your backups.