An alert that pages you when nothing is broken
My monitoring had a check on the resolvers the router uses. There are several of them on purpose: if one is slow or unreachable…
monitoringalertsnotes from a small home lab
Backups that actually restore, a NAS that warns me before a disk dies, a router that does more than it should. Each of these was an evening I would rather not repeat, written down the same night.
My monitoring had a check on the resolvers the router uses. There are several of them on purpose: if one is slow or unreachable…
monitoringalertsA small service I wrote in Go runs on the router. It logs four or five lines a day: it started, it reloaded, someone typed the…
timegoroutersThe router runs Entware on a USB stick, which is how it gets a package manager, a cron and a few binaries that the stock firmware…
routerspackagesFor two years my off-site backup was a USB disk at my parents' place. It worked until it didn't: the disk was full, nobody…
backupsresticMonthly scrub on the first Sunday. For a year the mail said 0 errors and I stopped reading it. Then it didn't.
zfsdisksThe SD card lasted 26 months, which is honestly more than I expected with the recorder writing every few seconds. The signs were…
raspberry pihome assistantThe desktop at home sleeps most of the day. I want to wake it from wherever I am, and I do not want a port forward on the router…
networkingwake-on-lanThis site is a directory of HTML files and a config that fits on one screen. I keep reinventing this every couple of years, so…
nginxwebA print that fails at hour two and keeps extruding for five more is the most expensive way to make spaghetti. The fix is a camera…
3d printingcamerasEvery Debian box I run has unattended-upgrades. Half of them had been waiting for a reboot for months, because the default is to…
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