💾 Archived View for zaibatsu.circumlunar.space › ~visiblink › phlog › 20210813 captured on 2023-03-20 at 18:38:03.
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I was re-wiring a room the other day and shut off the power. Before flipping the breaker switch, I powered down the raspberry pi zero w that hosts my personal gopher hole. I've lost enough MicroSD cards that I never take any chances. I didn't power down my ancient single-drive Synology backup server though. It's never been a problem. Of course, this time, it was a problem. It wouldn't reboot after I turned the power back on. Fortunately, the corruption was only on the OS partition, so I reinstalled and all the data was still there. Synology has all kinds of software for file syncing and what-not, but I just use rsync for backups and ftp for access to files on the server. OMG the simple old UNIX tools are the greatest! It had been a while since I did a backup, so I did one and despite the crash, reinstalling the software, and all that, everything went off without a hitch, as if nothing had happened. I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here, and that this is really obvious stuff, but we really don't need all this cloudy-droppy- proprietary badness! Rsync. FTP. FTW! [Image of Visiblink with fist in the air, a la John Bender after detention on a Saturday afternoon] [Cue the new wave music]