Tag: storage

Borg is open-source classic with SSH targets. Duplicacy has lock-free multi-source magic but commercial GUI. Here's which backup tool to pick.

rclone copies and syncs files to cloud storage. Restic does deduplicated encrypted snapshots. Confusing them costs you restores at 2 AM.

Native ZFS dataset encryption vs LUKS under your pool — which layer to encrypt at, performance trade-offs, key management, and raw send/recv.

Dropbox got expensive and your data left the building. Syncthing, Resilio Sync, and Seafile compared — pick the one that fits your threat model.

Disks fail. SMART tells you when. Here's how smartctl and smartd actually predict failure, and the attributes that matter (most don't).

Stop trusting marketing IOPS numbers. fio measures what your disk actually does on your workload — sequential, random, mixed. Here's how to read the output honestly.

Bcachefs got booted from the Linux mainline kernel and now ships as a DKMS module. Stability verdict, tiering, and a straight answer for home lab use in 2026.

The -v and --mount flags for Docker volumes explained — bind mounts vs named volumes, read-only, propagation, and tmpfs options.

Self-host Nextcloud in Docker with persistent storage and a reverse proxy — your own Google Drive without the Google.

Restic forget, prune, and check: right order, real retention flags, cron automation, and why --read-data on a large repo will ruin your whole weekend.

What is lost+found and why does it exist? fsck puts recovered file fragments there after a crash — and no, you can't delete it.

Stop burning money on AWS egress fees. Here is how to build a real tiered backup strategy using Backblaze B2 plus rclone for your home lab setup in 2026.