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  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.nettohomeassistant@lemmy.worldUpdate policy?
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    4 days ago

    I have a baby at home and that makes it impossible to keep up with all the updates. Reading the release notes? God damn, I’m glad I have the time hit the update button once a month and then pray to god that it doesn’t break anything. If it does then it’ll take months before I have time to investigate.

    This led me to abonden HA from the summer house already. My dad’s HA has been turned off for three months too because I just can’t find the time to fix it, and at home it’s running but I have only one type of ZigBee things still working, other things are just broken like my script showing random pictures on the TV.

    I really wish for a LTS version. I don’t have those problems on my Server where I run Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.






  • Nextcloud it just too heavy I totally agree, and everything feels slow and sluggish.

    For just files I use Syncthing and couldn’t be happier, it just works in the background without a central server just syncs the files between phones, PCs and laptops by itself. I set it up like 5 years ago when I had enough of Nextcloud and to be honest most of the time I forget that I have it, but I use it every day to sync my password database for KeePassXC, my music, my private and work documents between all my devices.












  • Most of the time the VPS provider offers some backup solution. It’s not only about your configuration files which can easily be recreated, but about all the user data like pictures databases, etc. Which once lost can’t be recovered.

    Best practice is a 3-2-1 backup: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

    But you could back up your stuff on your laptop if you want, it’s not such a bad idea actually. For that you trigger the backup script from your laptop, you can do it automatically there too. This makes sure that the laptop is on while you’re doing the backup.

    The easiest way is a crown job and a bash file which runs a couple of rsync commands to get specific files and directories from the server via ssh.

    A more involved way would be a backup system like restic, which does a lot of things for you but is a bit more involved to set up.