With restic you can pipe to stdin, so I use mysqldump and pipe it to restic:

mysqldump --defaults-file=/root/backup_scripts/.my.cnf --databases db-name | restic backup --stdin --stdin-filename db-name.sql

The .my.cnf looks like this:

[mysqldump]
user=db-user
password="databasepassword"

I don’t have an android. On iOS I tried their table thing, it works decently, but not nearly as nicely optimised for the use on an iPad as Apple Numbers is.

Very true, but I like my NAS to be maintenance-free, and Synology delivers on that. Their apps work out of the box and are installed with basically one click. I fiddle with tech enough at my job, I like my private tech to just work.

Even as a power-user you can do a lot, the synology nas also runs docker, so you can run whatever you’d like on it, not just the synology provided services.

Expanding the hardware is kind of a pain, even with RAM they are kind of weird and you need some approved (synology-brand) ram, or need to fiddle with some system files to make it accept any ram.

Also i’d love if they went with zfs instead of their llvm + btrfs.

A really cool do-it-all Option to de-google / de-cloud yourself is to buy a synology NAS. They come with all the cloud stuff you want, it works really well out of the box:

• Synology Drive for synced files, sharing files / folders with friends etc.
• Synology Office (Integrated into Drive)
• Synology Photos does the photo backup from your mobile devices
• Synology Calendar for calendar syncing etc

That way you’re not moving from one cloud provider to another one you might or might not trust, but you host it all yourself.

You can’t dedup/compress restic repos at fs level due to the encryption.

Nice thing is you get those even with „dumb“ targets that can‘t do those for you.

Restic is my tool of choice for deduplicated encrypted verifiable compressed incremental backups.

Bold coming from the top innovator of printer behavior that deserves hatred…

Deep Rock galactic. I played it very early, didn’t feel it and refunded it. A year or so later I stumbled upon it again and bought it again. I really like it now.

I mean, it really is the only client that makes sense when you get more serious. It can seed 1000+ torrents without problems.

No, the ports expire, but you can script the renewal / new port process via their API. I want to set up a job that gets a new port like 1x per week and tells it to the applicating using the port. Haven’t done that yet. So far my port stayed active for like a month.

I like how they have an api for stuff like port forwarding etc (albeit with mediocre documentation), and how they use all their own servers.

So far I could always max out my connection, it is only 100Mbit/s tho.

I use azire now. Works well so far.

You can also feed database dumps directly into restic, like this:

mysqldump --defaults-file=/root/backup_scripts/.my.cnf --databases mydatabse | restic backup --stdin --stdin-filename mydatabase.sql

Daily backup using Restic to wasabi s3.

Restic already speaks s3 natively, no need to mount it or anything, just point it at a bucket and hand it an api key.

You can use an api key that’s only allowed to read and write, but not delete / modify, so you’ve got some protection from ransomware.

.tar.zst is my go-to nowadays. .txz if I need wide compatibllity.

Also vlc and infuse.

Im on a First Generation Apple TV 4K. 6 years old and still works flawlessly.

Only reason I might get a newer one is to have another matter border router. Also the new remote looks nicer.

I love the Apple TV. It has a super fast ui. I use infuse on it to play content from a network share, and Plex.

I use wasabi s3, I back up to that using restic.