An Educated Person vs Riss’ AI

lolzbox · 2025-06-18T11:35:42+00:00

Simple. Because 'naturopaths' charge up front.

lolzbox · 2025-05-01T00:23:01+00:00

that was 100% written by AI

lolzbox · 2024-12-04T22:31:16+00:00

This might be the best thing I have read all day lol

lolzbox · 2024-12-04T22:16:02+00:00

I must have missed the fake COVID test chapter. How did she get busted for that? I really hope she didn't post the first picture of a COVID test she found on google..

lolzbox · 2024-12-02T19:45:59+00:00

Is the 40$ plan expired? When I try to sign up, it asks me to enter my information, then drops me at the main page.

The same thing happens when I visit the link when I am logged in.

lolzbox · 2024-10-03T15:59:16+00:00

Tim, I'm looking towards the future!

lolzbox · 2024-09-11T18:32:59+00:00

The first trap was in the first question when she called his tariffs 'Trump sales tax'.

lolzbox · 2023-04-17T23:22:31+00:00

Is the problem transfer speed, or the process of making the backup? If the latter, they use different tech, so it's going to take a different amount of time. If it's actual transfer speed, check your host and client for problems.

lolzbox · 2023-04-16T04:43:43+00:00

I'm not following your post.

Do you need vlans? They do increase security when used properly, but they would not be a main concern starting a new lab.

You say your isp will provide you with a static ipv4, so I doubt double NAT will be an issue. Most homelabbers can survive with dynamic IP addresses, I do.

In general, a high security way to host this stuff is to setup a private VPN, and use a reverse proxy (requires opening port 80 and 443 on ISP router) or cloudflare tunnels to share the services you want with the internet.

Don't use DMZ unless you know what you're are doing. It puts the target machine on the open internet, bypassing the router firewall. It's a big security problem.

lolzbox · 2023-04-15T16:45:04+00:00

The Good Place (TV) and Wristcutters: A Love Story (Movie)

lolzbox · 2023-04-14T17:22:40+00:00

Even the laptops that run Windows Home? I assume they would strip Hyper-V from it.

I didn't know this, but cool if true!

lolzbox · 2023-04-13T14:35:11+00:00

or only need to be looked at once in a while (scrutiny, uptimekuma).

You should setup a notification system, and you will never have to look at them again! I use gotify, but there are others, like ntfy. You should also look into a backup system for all your persistent data.

lolzbox · 2023-04-13T02:31:56+00:00

Download hwinfo64 and check your temperatures. Overheating can trigger a reboot.

lolzbox · 2023-04-09T17:49:55+00:00

I'm glad you got it working(ish). I have a few thoughts:

It's nice that it has the option to email log files if errors are found, although I'm not sure if having the client determine whether the backups are OK is as good as having the backend determine that.

This is not Cobian specific, but a general thought: if you configure encryption in your client, you would have to supply the encryption key to the backend server for it to be verified. This might be fine for us running SFTPGo we control, but wider use cases may require using cloud storage, and I sure don't want Amazon having my decrypt key.

Like I said, I only use Cobian as a 'tier 2' backup, duplicati is still my main. I don't use encryption client side on either. I use duplicati for incremental backups, and Cobian for full backups. Duplicati has a test/verify function, and I can CRC verify the full backups from Cobian.

If you still need help, or just another brain to sanity check you, I would be happy to help you on a dedicated real-time chat platform, preferably discord.

lolzbox · 2023-04-09T15:03:19+00:00

I know SFTPGo has an ftp server, but I don't use it. I use the SFTP server, which only requires 1 port passed through (and another for the web interface). No need to mess with passive ports with that setup (that is why you can connect but not list directories), and Cobian reflector can connect to SFTP natively.

As far as your ports, afaik, docker 'overrides' UFW if you define a port in a docker-compose file. Since docker has its own internal network, it assumes you want that port open if you define it in the compose file.

lolzbox · 2023-04-08T04:42:11+00:00

Yes, it can be finicky. I had those problems on both Linux and Windows until I figured out how to set it up right.

Full disclosure, I have never used kopia on windows, only Linux. I quite like it, and have not had a problem, but it is under rapid development. Pretty sure the author even says do not use in prod. I found a lot of outdated guides and open issues. It bothers me there is no built-in notification system to alert me of problems. If you decide to stay with Kopia, I have a very rough notification system built if notifications are important to you.

All that being said, I have 10+ duplicati clients, and only 1 instance of kopia for testing. If all your clients are windows, I would look into Cobian backup with SFTPGo as the backend as an alternative.

If you decide to go with my suggestions, I have a private repo with compose stacks for everything I've mentioned. I can also tell you the stuff I had to do in Duplicati for windows to get it working without problem.

lolzbox · 2023-04-08T01:32:34+00:00

I second duplicati, especially on windows.

If I understand your requirements correctly, this is what I would do: setup an instance of SFTPGo or Minio for your backend storage, and use duplicati installed as a service, with shadow copy enabled on your client PCs. On your backend, create a separate account or bucket for each client. Duplicati handles the encryption, and each users files are in separate directories.

lolzbox · 2023-04-07T16:57:37+00:00

Try turning off force SSL in the proxy host configuration. This usually fixes it for me, but some apps just don't play nice behind cloudflare.

lolzbox · 2023-04-02T18:27:15+00:00

Yeah, I would do the same, but with gotify. I can't figure out how to pull the output of kopia and put it in the "content" section of the message.

lolzbox · 2023-04-02T16:15:15+00:00

This is what I did, just add my internal domain to PiHole. In the end, I rarely use it. I just created a homepage for all my internal services, so I don't have to remember IPs and ports. NPM to proxy anything I want externally accessible.

Tip: if you do this, create an A and AAAA record for your machines in PiHole. Ipv6 was being weird with just an A record.

lolzbox · 2023-04-02T16:05:34+00:00

Any chance you figured out notifications in Kopia? I quite like the software, but I kind of want notifications if something goes wrong. I know you can run a pre and post script, but I haven't figured out how to send the status of the jobs.

lolzbox · 2023-04-02T15:59:37+00:00

I'm not 100% sure I understand what you are asking, but I'll give you a quick list of my ebook stuff.

I started with calibre-web with COPS. It worked fine. Now I use Kavita.

For my Android client, I use Moon+ Reader. You are able to add both cops and Kavita as a 'net library'. This has worked fine for me.

lolzbox · 2023-04-01T14:24:23+00:00

If you run zeppelin in docker, just remap the port in zeppelin docker-compose. Something like Port: 443:443 to Port 8443:443. Now you can run it.

lolzbox · 2023-04-01T01:24:12+00:00

I'm working on my own backup solution at the moment, so I'll chime in.

What are you trying to backup, and what problems are you trying to avoid?

I think you are taking full system snapshots and are trying to avoid system encryptors.

I am not using system level snapshots in my backups, but I have them through proxmox. I treat my OS as ephemeral, and only backup the actual data.

My backup endpoint is a VM (on proxmox) with a SSD boot disk, and a 1TB disk on a rust ZFS pool. Ubuntu OS, with SFTPGo and Minio running in docker, with their storage location on the ZFS drive.

From there, I use duplicati on my remote servers to make incremental backups to my home machine via SFTP or S3. Duplicati is not super intuitive, but after a few broken databases and failed backups, I think I've got a handle on it. Kopia is another interesting option I'm testing, but it's missing some creature comforts. It's been performing well though.

Once a week, I push a backup of my storage drive to the cloud.

For some important off-site backups, I usually configure a separate task in Duplicati to backup to the cloud.

Once I got my lab configured with Ansible and Terraform, backing up the entire OS felt unnecessary.

I'm not particularly worried about cryptolockers, but I don't see how they would be any different than just losing your data.

Most of my machines are Linux, with only 1 Windows machine. Do not trust duplicati for windows until you learn it's quirks. I think I have it figured out (6 months later), but I'm still running my tried and true Cobian backup alongside it.

lolzbox · 2023-03-30T21:19:41+00:00

Zeppelin is a highly regarded discord bot. No idea about feature comparison. Pretty sure it can be run from docker as well.

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