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 …
Tag Archives: Linux
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 …
Enfreshen
Saying “Hello!” to my new FreshRSS server that I set up at home last night. Drunk Sysadmin gets the job done! Seriously, I’ve been looking for a Feedly replacement, since Feedly seems hell-bent on adding AI integrations and inserting interpretive links into the text of fetched RSS feed documents. (No. Stop. Don’t do that. Bad …
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 …
DROP
Nerd rage. Fixed a recent problem in which I set up the conditions for failure years ago. My Linux PC at home has been having hardware issues. It’s been in service for 13-ish years and, electronically, it’s falling apart. It was kernel panicking while transferring files from my phone over USB3. After enough of this, …