Continuing my “I’m on vacation and I have so much mental capacity to finish my projects at home” series of wins, I finally migrated my Zoneminder server from my workstation to a VM I created expressly for this purpose. Now I have two Zoneminder servers that do the same exact thing in different ways. I’ll …
Category Archives: Linux
FreshRSS and Fail2ban
Based on my prior installation success with FreshRSS, I felt it was necessary to put it behind a fail2ban filter to drop inbound traffic from abusive external IPs. My FreshRSS installation is using the simple tarball on top of webroot method; I’m not using containers or anything. It’s all bare metal, so it’s piggybacking off …
Hardlinks 2: Electric Boogaloo
Followup to the previous post, after moving the hardlinked file to another folder and waiting for last night’s backup to run, I can confirm that the inode ref count increases as expected. Before backup, ref count was 43 (that includes the backup from Saturday, which happened before I wrote up that post). This morning, it’s …
Only the Hardest Links
At home I use backintime as my backup software (a FOSS clone of Apple’s Time Machine). It works fantastically (and has saved my ass several times). It’s a Python framework around some very clever rsync magic; daily incremental snapshots are light on space because it uses hard links on the backend storage if a file …
Remote Bird
While waiting on dinner at the restaurant tonight, I noticed on my phone’s mail app (K-9 Mail) that my emails weren’t being filtered like they should. Automated notifications that normally would be Marked as Read by one of the many rules I have in Thunderbird were going unmodified. That’s when I remembered that, an hour …