QOTD: How do you back up your files?

I asked this one almost a year ago and I started using Restic shortly after that. When I started, I was only backing up my home folder to the repository over NFS. Now, I’m backing up the entire root filesystem to a repository using the REST backend so I can run Restic as root without breaking the permissions.

I’m working on automating it now and I’m trying to come up with something using pinentry but my proof-of-concept is getting pretty obtuse. It will be spread out in a shell script, of course, but still.

systemd-inhibit --what=handle-lid-switch restic --password-command='su -c "printf '"'"'GETPIN\n\'"'"' | WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 pinentry-qt5 | grep ^D | sed '"'"'s/^D //'"'"'" mckinley' --repository-file /root/restic-repo backup --exclude-file /root/restic-excludes --exclude-caches --one-file-system /

I’m curious to see how everyone’s backup solutions have changed since last year.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de hahahaha! Accurate, 100%. 😩

@movq@www.uninformativ.de pfff, your code is “break-proof”! All looking good, so far. 😊

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I’ve never had a use for Syncthing but I hope I get one at some point so I can see how it works. Do three-way merges work on Keepass database files?

I have been up, and ready to go for hours. Partner is still in bed. She takes such a long time to wake up on weekends! Past noon already, and we need to get food for the elders, and come back to tidy up things to get ready for the next weekly cycle.

Ugh! Where did the weekend go?!

@dfaria well, your “original twtxt” is an example of anything, but social. It is more like an echo chamber. If I am going to follow someone, I seek interaction. Language isn’t a barrier, lack of engagement is.

@prologic@twtxt.net Your position doesn’t make any sense: it’s closing down and arbitrarily limiting the use of the Twtxt protocol. One more reason not to use https://twtxt.net/

@sorenpeter@darch.dk Good points 👌

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org This ☝️

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks! 🙇‍♂️

@mckinley Do you have an alternate proposal? What we want to avoid really (if possible) is the idea of “1-ay posting” or “posting to the void”. As an obvious example, the idea of syncing your Mastoon toots to Twtxt twts that you never see replies to is well umm just silly 🤣 and thus creates unwanted noise as it’s just like talking to a “brick wall” 😥

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net You must live in the southern hemisphere? 🤔 It doesn’t ever snow here in Brisbane 🤣

I use KeePassXC because I really only use one device. I imagine it would be challenging to rsync the database around if I needed my passwords on more machines. It’s probably fine if you’re deliberate enough, but I don’t think it would take long before I’d lose a password by editing an outdated version of the repository and overwriting the main copy.

I like the simple architecture of Pass, and it would indeed lend itself well to a Git repository, but I don’t like that service names are visible on the filesystem. pass-tomb might mitigate this somewhat but it seems messy and I don’t know if it would work with Git without compromising the security of the tomb.

What’s so good about Bitwarden? Everyone seems to love it. I like that it can be self-hosted. I certainly wouldn’t want a third party in control of my password database.

@prologic@twtxt.net This seems like it would drive a wedge between Yarn.social and the people on regular old twtxt.

Apparently it’s snowing in some places now

@bender This is what I fell over and bunged up my shin 😱

@test@aelaraji.com Looks fine to me? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net LOL no 🤣

@prologic is that the one that hit you in the shin? 😬

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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com No worries! We can work this out, Unicode is hard™ at the best of times 🤣

@xuu@txt.sour.is Like it’s pretty easy to use really:

prologic/go-htmx-demo: A simple Web App written in Go using htmx on the frontend to drive a single-page-app (SPA) experience. - go-htmx-demo - Mills

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Can you perhaps setup a temporary/test feed, link me and let’s debug this together? Maybe it’s a bug in Jenny? 🤣

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com The only thing I’ve observed so far is your server isn’t setting a charset. e.g:

$ curl -v -o /dev/null https://twtxt.net/~prologic/twtxt.txt 2>&1 | grep 'content-type'
< content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com a bit on the tangent, what font is that one on your screenshot?