Yeah, you need a way to specify what you want with a high degree of both flexibility and specificity. We have a term for that in the industry, it’s called “writing code”.

They look an awful lot like Edalyn and Lilith Clawthorne, is that a coincidence?

KeePass on my phone and desktop, with the master file sync’d automatically to the server in my basement.

Generally speaking, fault protection schemes need only account for one fault at a time, unless you’re a really large business, or some other entity with extra-stringent data protection requirements.

RAID protects against drive failure faults. Backups protect against drive failure faults as well, but also things like accidental deletions or overwrites of data.

In order for RAID on backups to make sense, when you already have RAID on your main storage, you’d have to consider drive failures and other data loss to be likely to occur simultaneously. I.E. RAID on your backups only protects you from drive failure occurring WHILE you’re trying to restore a backup. Or maybe more generally, WHILE that backup is in use, say, if you have a legal requirement that you must keep a history of all your data for X years or something (I would argue data like this shouldn’t be classified as backups, though).

rsync, for sure. That’s what I used when I had to migrate a 10TB datastore to a new machins.

A DNS Proxy/Forwarder server? That’s where you would configure how your .internal domain resolves to IPs on your internal network. Machines inside the network make their DNS queries to that server, which either serves them from cache, or from the local mappings, for forwards them off to a public/ISP server.

More like “about time” or “took you long enough.” :P

Yeah, “made out with.”

I was actually gonna ask about this point, thanks for the context.

Option 1, except for the cloud bit. My KeePass file is stored in a restricted shared folder on my home file server, and auto-syncs to my phone on the rare occasion I update it from my desktop.

FOSS accounting app. There’s like 2 out there that I can find, and I hate them both.

I know this isn’t applicable to the authot, but… what the hell is up with so many people being averae to just WRITING CODE. 18% fewer characters, are there seriously people who think that’s meaningful?

• My desktop is Aperture
• My wife’s desktop is Dovahkiin
• My wife’s laptop is Lyndis
• The printer is Vaarsuvius
• The firewall is GlaDOS
• The file server is Atlantis

I know nothing about any of the other alternatives mentioned here, but I’ll pitch in my 2 cents that I am very happy with OMV. Haven’t had to touch it since they day I set it up, maybe 2 years ago. Except one time when I wanted to add a new SSH/FTP account for someone.

In addition to the core file services, it supports running a Docker host, in which I have running instances of Portainer (a Docker Web UI), Transmission (a bittorrent client, woth VPN support, also with a Web UI), and Plex.