This is a very important point actually. A back up is worthless unless it has been tested.

Love tailscale. The only issue I had with it is making it play nice with my local, daily driver VPN. Got it worked out tho. So, now everything is jippity jippity.

In a life before a TBI and subsequent seizure condition robbed me of a functioning brain, I actually ran the IT dept for a company which I worked for as a mech eng, estimator, designer, and project manager. This one gentleman who was a field super and his wife had been trying for years to have a child. They finally did after many miscarriages and rough times, and as you can imagine, they took so many pictures of their baby. He called me one day in a panic about his computer and so I rushed over to his house. Long story short, his HDD had suffered a major crash for whatever reason, and everything was gone. No backups of his baby pictures, nothing. I sent the HDD off to see what could be recovered, but apparently it everything was toast.

Even tho it wasn’t my pictures, it hurt me to my core, that all these pictures and memories this man and his wife had accumulated, were gone forever. It really did a number on me and I think about it from time to time even tho that has been decades ago.

Make backups folks. It might take you the better part of a Saturday afternoon to get everything backed up and secure, but do it anyways.

Excuse me while I solve a few more captchas.

Buster for captcha.

Will Proxmox BackUp server handle remote VPS? I had assumed that it only was for ProxMox VM’s.

Backup Types: Proxmox Backup Server is optimized for backing up Proxmox VMs and containers. If your VPS is running a different virtualization platform, you may need to adapt your backup strategy accordingly.

That’s what AI tells me and then gives a configuration such as:

#!/bin/bash

# Variables
CONTAINER_NAME="your_container_name"
VOLUME_NAME="your_volume_name"
BACKUP_DIR="/path/to/backup/dir"
TIMESTAMP=$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")

# Create a backup of the Docker volume
docker run --rm -v ${VOLUME_NAME}:/volume -v ${BACKUP_DIR}:/backup alpine \
    sh -c "cd /volume && tar czf /backup/${VOLUME_NAME}_${TIMESTAMP}.tar.gz ."

# Optionally, export the container
docker export ${CONTAINER_NAME} -o ${BACKUP_DIR}/${CONTAINER_NAME}_${TIMESTAMP}.tar

echo "Backup completed for ${CONTAINER_NAME} and ${VOLUME_NAME} at ${TIMESTAMP}"

Yeah I know it’s AI, which may or may not be completely accurate. Would I need to do that for each and every Docker container? I’ve got some 60 +/- containers. LOL <whine boohoo!>

That along with the client on the remote VPS would take care of Docker containers, however, I would also like to back up configuration files, and data associated with UFW, F2B, etc. Pretty much a snapshot of each server.

These lowendbox hosts don’t include snapshots and frills and Contabo only lets you keep one snapshot active. I did find an N8N flow that automates the snapshot process for Contabo. I guess I could upgrade to better hosts, but one of the VPS is my skunk works server where I run and test everything before putting it into production…it’s like $25 per year. Contabo is decent, and LuxVPS gives me the most bang for buck including all the frills for $10 a month. So, that’s about as much fun money I got for the time being.

I looked at Borg, didn’t see a GUI, but Borgwarehouse look good. It’s on the list. Thanks

I run Proxmox on the local server. I didn’t know Veeam had a community edition. The 13 gb download just finished. It’s on the list. Thanks.

I too use Freshrss. I use a lot of the feeds from https://www.trackawesomelist.com/ which tracks all the Github Awesome lists.

I’ve heard a lot of good things about Ghost. I see a lot of bloggers running it. I’m not a blogger and I doubt anyone would be interested in what I had to say…lol…so I don’t have experience in that area. However, Ghost seems to be the ticket for bloggers. It integrates with thousands of services and some really great theme templates. If I were going to start a blog, that’s what I would go with. Jeremy over at Noted.lol has a write up about it and iirc, he uses Ghost for Noted.lol itself.

I really like tailscale. I had a little bit of a task getting it to run along side my daily driver VPN, but all is well now. For something so easy to implement, it gives the user a lot of protection.

Aww man I remember those well. Is this for nostalgia or do you regularly use it?

Whatever solution(s) you come up with, you are going to have to address security at some point, to keep all the good stuff in, and all the baddies out…and there are millions of baddie bots just dying to get to your server to set up an xmrig-monero mining operation on your server. They don’t share in the profits either…lol.

So, while you are figuring out infrastructure, don’t overlook security.

To be honest, that was the only thing I could scrape up. At the very least, I figured if it wasn’t readily usable, it would give you some ideas of how to cobble together something along the same lines to solve your issue. Other options were using proprietary apps like FoneBackup, etc.

Cheers

LOL! It’s a real product tho. I’m struggling to get through 32 oz. I guess I don’t have the use case of someone like Diddy.

Would this work: https://github.com/johannesschiessl/Goodnotes-Backup

entirety of my network to a third party tool that I don’t know that well.

Understandable.

But I’m not very comfortable giving 100% access to Tailscale to my internal network

Out of curiosity, why are you uncomfortable with Tailscale?

I think for now, I will just be a part of what is already here. Maybe later I may entertain the idea.

I can definitely sing the praises of Proxmox. One of the three businesses I run from home uses a piece of software called BlueBeam. Feature for feature, I’ve not been able to find an opensource alternative. So I spin up a Windows VM with Proxmox for BlueBeam. I also run quite a few of the helper scripts, tho I am really keeping an eye on that. There seems to be diverging opinions among the devs on how things should operate. I also run a couple of small AI projects on Proxmox, so yea…it gets a work out. For what Proxmox can do, I was honestly surprised that the community edition was free. That’s an awesome piece of software.

This one always makes me giggle and think of this.