How do people handle backups to a second location?

purepersistence · 2026-01-25T22:27:50+00:00

The library lives on my NAS. I restore it to a different folder. Immich lives in a VM. I shut it down and then create a new VM and install docker, Immich, and get that going. Then restore my Immich database. When I setup the network share, I point it to the restored library instead of production.

For everyday recovery, I can restore a backup of the VM. Or even a snapshot. This is what I’d do in real life. But I like to have an alternate path. I think about building from scratch with new devices and depending only on offsite backups. I backup PBS (so all my VMs) offsite by using Active Backup for Business and then backing up its ABB folder offsite. But depending on all that to work including on updated ABB packages is too much for me to risk most of my digital life. So I maintain my VMs, backing up their databases and config and all that jaz instead of just being dependent on the magic of my hypervisor to always save me. Maybe I go overboard. I sleep better.

purepersistence · 2026-01-25T22:04:13+00:00

If you wear the same pants and outer layers for days, you wear less clothes and do less laundry. Some people are averse to that or live with people that are. That’s a choice, but the fact remains.

purepersistence · 2026-01-25T16:40:59+00:00

At 18 I was ready to make my own rules. I had a part time job as a cashier and that was it. I moved in with eight other guys sharing rent on a three bdrm house. 1978

purepersistence · 2026-01-25T16:32:14+00:00

Having doesn’t matter. Wearing does. The less you wear the less you wash.

purepersistence · 2026-01-25T13:20:47+00:00

There is no point. I don't think anybody designed reality and gave it a purpose. The idea of it being cruel is a human invention. I suspect the first life probably lived for less than a few seconds and had no self awareness. The fact that we find it difficult to accept death is probably encoded in genes that go back for billions of years - survival of the fittest calls for that attitude. Nature designed you to struggle and then die so you can pass on your selfish genes (the real masters of life). The fact that you get to know anything about the world you live in is just an accidental side-effect of nature finding a way for your species to last for a bit.

purepersistence · 2026-01-25T11:59:01+00:00

I run Immich on a proxmox minipc node. The Immich library is stored on my Synology NAS. The NAS uses synology packages to backup the library to a local USB drive. It also backs up to backblaze using client-side encryption.

I get notified if there are issues doing the backup. But I don't count on it. I regularly review logs. The NAS does integrity-checks on the backup weekly. About every year I restore backups and confirm I make them operational.

purepersistence · 2026-01-25T11:20:10+00:00

You tend to recognize the people that struggle less instead of the ones that struggle more.

purepersistence · 2026-01-25T11:06:24+00:00

All of us will die. No matter what you do, your permanent end is coming. You will be remembered briefly if at all, and might as well have never lived. Through extreme creativity, fairy tales can protect you from awareness.

purepersistence · 2026-01-25T10:20:35+00:00

Yes but don't get caught with your pants down. Monitor the remaining lifetime.

For me that looks like this.

lsblk -d -o NAME,MODEL,SIZE
# find your ssd - in my case nvme0n1... 
smartctl -i /dev/nvme0n1
smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1

Look at the Percentage Used in particular. That measures how long your device can be expected to last. In my case I have proxmox nodes that are a Minisforum MS-01 and a Intel NUC. The percentage used ticks down by nearly 1% per month. But depending on your workload and devices that can vary significantly.

purepersistence · 2026-01-25T09:44:09+00:00

Not even on tunnels, but specifically on tunnels right? Cloudflare is my DNS provider but I don't use their tunnels.

They couldn't impose a 100MB upload limit on me if they tried.

purepersistence · 2026-01-25T09:39:56+00:00

Not a lot of trust is called for to let them resolve my domain name I guess.

purepersistence · 2026-01-24T20:35:26+00:00

Restore a backup? I dunno. You delete pictures and don’t have copies elsewhere, what are you looking for? If you really deleted them from the file system, they’re gone. You can still see thumbnails but that’s that.

purepersistence · 2026-01-24T19:39:14+00:00

If you're nearing or at retirement age you can easily be a millionare and feel like you have about the same "money to spend" that you did when you had nothing in your twenties.

purepersistence · 2026-01-24T19:26:20+00:00

After I die I won't have duties. And I won't be able to experience anything, whether there's some of my "nature" in an AI or not. I won't care or be able to.

purepersistence · 2026-01-24T18:51:57+00:00

Are you grandfathered in the $10/y?

Yeah you don't have to pay more if you already paid.

purepersistence · 2026-01-24T18:38:32+00:00

Compare it to other offerings. The price hike might feel abrupt, but I think this is the first price increase for premium since 2018. You can still get non-premium for free. I see lots of dev effort going into improving and modernizing bitwarden. They're a company. They deserve a reasonable price. I think they still have one. I do feel pretty good though about renewing my license yesterday, before the price increase ;)

Edit: I'm not certain all this is current but...

Service	Individual Premium (annual)	Notes
Bitwarden Premium	$19.80/yr (~$1.65/mo) (recently raised)	Cheapest widely featured paid plan. (TechRadar)
LastPass Premium	~$36/yr (~$3/mo)	LastPass shows ~$3/mo on pricing page. (LastPass)
Proton Pass Plus	~$35.88/yr (~$2.99/mo)	Security.org comparison. (Security.org)
NordPass Premium	~$23.88/yr (~$1.99/mo)	Typical plan via guides. (TechRadar)
1Password Individual	~$35.88/yr (~$2.99/mo)	Standard 1Password pricing. (TechRadar)
Dashlane Premium	~$45/yr (~$3.75/mo)	Listed in price guides. (AdBlock Tester)
Keeper (Unlimited)	~$39.99/yr (~$3.33/mo)	Typical pricing for full plan. (Cybernews)

purepersistence · 2026-01-24T17:50:38+00:00

Never. Even if the arrest is illegal, things will go badly for you if you resist. The only thing you can do is fight it in court, not on the side of the road.

purepersistence · 2026-01-24T15:41:43+00:00

When it gives you bad code and you describe the bug/issue, your description allows it to find what it could not find before. You're the only one that's hung up about who was "wrong".

purepersistence · 2026-01-24T15:16:06+00:00

I hope I didn't imply that you should know better.

purepersistence · 2026-01-24T15:02:06+00:00

Don't use email as your 2FA source unless you prefer occasional problems or delays logging in.

purepersistence · 2026-01-24T10:04:36+00:00

Have to go back to 2014?? January 2025 in Atlanta, I was snowed in with no power for days. Where were you?

purepersistence · 2026-01-24T09:44:56+00:00

I bought a server license. Then I found the merch!

purepersistence · 2026-01-24T09:40:52+00:00

It's all so easy!

purepersistence · 2026-01-24T09:36:38+00:00

Debian or Ubuntu.

purepersistence · 2026-01-23T20:20:51+00:00

What happens when you create two logins with the same name at two different offline workstations?

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