Storage & Backups

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• linux New

  rsync --link-dest: Snapshot Backups

  Build dated, browsable snapshot backups with rsync and hard links, then let a systemd timer run and prune them. Includes a tested script and the traps.

  9 Nov, 2026

  · 13 min read
• vaultwarden New

  When Vaultwarden Dies: A Recovery Drill

  Back up Vaultwarden properly: the SQLite file plus the files people forget, what the Bitwarden clients keep cached, and a restore drill that proves it works.

  27 Oct, 2026

  · 16 min read
• linux New

  NVMe SMART: Reading Wear Before It Dies

  How NVMe wear leveling works and which SMART health log fields show it: Percentage Used, Available Spare, media errors, TBW math, smartctl vs nvme-cli.

  24 Oct, 2026

  · 13 min read
• immich New

  Immich Backups That Outlive Immich

  Family photos outlast any app and any admin's enthusiasm. Set up Immich so the originals, albums, and a README survive without it, plus an offsite restic copy.

  23 Oct, 2026

  · 14 min read
• linux

  Btrfs Send/Receive: Incremental Backups

  Back up btrfs with send and receive: full and incremental streams over SSH, parent snapshots, restores, failure modes, and btrbk to automate the whole loop.

  8 Oct, 2026

  · 13 min read
• linux

  Stratis: Red Hat's Answer to Btrfs

  Stratis layers XFS over device-mapper thin pools instead of copying Btrfs. What the trade costs you on RHEL, Rocky, and Alma, and which one to run in 2026.

  16 Sep, 2026

  · 12 min read