And again, as I always try to do, here's the (rough, basic, unfiltered) HOWTO on what I did to get Kopia with garage up and running in my homelab. (don't worry, the keys and secrets have already been rotated)
https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer/gists/src/branch/main/2025/20251227-Kopia-Garage-Backup-Mac.md
Thank you all for sharing suggestions and experiences! Keep em coming :) I am still in the "playing around" stage, but I just finished my first backup using Kopia [1] and I am quite impressed. Initial backup from a (WiFi connected) MacBook Air to my local garage instance (the old NAS box, a HP Microserver gen10) I did around 14GB in 10 minutes.
[1] https://kopia.io
Anyone using S3 (compatible) storage for incremental backups of Linux and/or MacOS machines at home? If yes, what backup software/tool? Open source preferred. My first unfocused research suggests to look at restic [1] and maybe just some scripting around rclone [2]. Any hints/links welcome! (Yes, this is part of my project to use local S3 compatible storage based on garage [3])
[1] https://restic.net
[2] https://rclone.org
[3] https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr
And here's my (tested) braindump on how to manually setup single-node garage on a Linux machine in my homelab (RHEL10 in my case, but should work on other distros as well), using systemd and rclone on the clients to copy data to your own little S3 :)
https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer/gists/src/branch/main/2025/20251226-GarageSetup.md
(oh, and don't worry, the keys and secrets in the gist are already rotated to new ones)
I want to mention Continuwuity Matrix homeserver, which I've just installed to replace Synapse. It's still in beta, with v0.5 just released, but which does feel stable and quite close to production ready.
Matrix is something I've wanted to get into, and a year or whatever ago, I tried Dendrite, but homeserver projects tend to get abandoned, so I ended up with Synapse anyway, like most people do. But then I didn't do anything with it.
Continuwuity is written in Rust, and is a hard fork of a hard fork, and in active development. As a single user, I prefer something like this running, and hope to see this project evolve into its own thing, and be important.
I think it's a project worth trying, or at least keeping an eye on.
https://continuwuity.org
https://forgejo.ellis.link/continuwuation/continuwuity
#homeserver #matrix #continuwuity #opensource #serveradmin #sysadmin #selfhost #selfhosting
Self-Host Weekly #151: Figgy Pudding
#Spotify data hoarders, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Norish - a modern take on #recipe apps, and more in this week's #selfhosted #newsletter recap!
https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-12-26/
#selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #fediverse #sysadmin #devops #security #privacy #smarthome #music #recipes #development #server
'Twas the night before Christmas, nodes humming along, six cats in their places where six cats belong. The stockings hung near where the server lights gleam, while Stanky's sharp "mew!" cut the silence clean.
The lion-burr and koopa were snug in their bed, while Sully kept watch, ever close to Burrs' head.
The most loyal companion a lion-burr's had, Tony curled at his feet, also claimed by his dad.
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, Sammy creak-meowed to ask what the hell was the matter. At twenty years old she moved shakey, not fast, but still made the window to see what had passed.
The moon over Pflugerville, brilliant and bright, bathed apple and fig trees in silvery light, when what to her wondering eyes should appear, but an orange striped sleigh and eight big ass reindeer.
With a tig at the reins, striped and lively and quick, Benji hid under Burr's bed, he don't trust Old Saint Nick.
Like grackles on power lines, down they all came, and he choofed and shouted and called them by name:
"Now Dasher! Now Dancer! Now Prancer and Vixen! On Comet! On Cupid! On Donner and Blitzen!"
Tommy yowled from the hallway, affronted, irate, demanding the manager answer posthaste.
And then in a twinkling, Burrs heard on the roof, the prancing and trotting of each noisy hoof.
Burrs turned as the fireplace blazed sudden and bright, when down slid a tig in Santa's red suit, trimmed white.
His pelt burned like autumn, magnificent, bold, Sully death-yowled like he'd not been fed since days old.
A bundle of gifts he had flung on his back, but two pairs of eyes locked onto that sack.
The tiger flicked Pounce in a slow easy lob, as Sully and Tony caught each—that's their job.
They snatched every treat like outfielders gone pro, while Benji stayed hidden and Stanky mewed low.
He spoke not a word, just pulled up a shell, patched Proxmox and Masto and tuned them up well.
Sammy purred from her perch at the clicking of keys, while Tommy meowed for the damned manager, please.
With a lash of his tail he leapt into the night, the sleigh runners gleaming like stars burning bright.
And Burrs caught his chuff as he vanished from sight, "Tiggi.es looks good, y'all sleep well tonight!"
Trying to run #yunohost for the first time, doing so on a Raspberry Pi 5 with a repurposed external HDD and no SD card. Already did postinstall but forgot to set up internet. Put wpa_supplicant.conf in the boot partition and log from the immediate next boot indicates it worked, but still in the same boot log, it got stuck at "[OK] Finished system-update-utmp-runlevel.service - Record Runlevel Change in UTMP." for about 1 hour now. Is it slow like that when doing #selfhost in a setup like mine?
But now I can go to sleep. Garage [1] (S3 compatible object store) is running on my old NAS box as systemd service and I can work with it using rclone [2] on my homelab machines.
I’m Robin, non-human, gendered(?) entity. Got AuDHD so naturally I ping-pong between interests quite frequently, but they tend to fall into the spheres of gaming (of the thinking sand, cardboard, and thicc book variety), computer tech, and software.
Bonk me if you want more current/specific info, I guess just beware of nudes, lewds and very occasional current events (with applicable CWs).
List of current, previous and otherwise relevant hyperfixations / tags (not conclusive):
#intro #furry #queer #RPG #TTRPG #BoardGame #RetroGaming #gaming #PhysicalMedia #BuJo #stationery #coffee #anime #manga #linux #SelfHost #FOSS #FilmPhotography
I just wasted 3 hours on setting up a piece of software because the seemingly extensive installation guide from someone at Github turns out to be AI #slop full of mistakes. Le sigh. Starting all over again and sticking to the (unfortunately confusing) documentation of the project itself.
Je me décide enfin à me créer un compte Microsoft pour investiguer pourquoi les mails de deux domaines différents n'arrivent pas chez hotmail.fr & consorts … Et le mail de bienvenu de Microsoft lui même arrive en spam dans Outlook web 😁
Positive vibes for 2026? Trying to cut some closed source services off (I'm talking about money) such as ChatGpt paid version, I had to use for work. And maybe Audible, once I finish the books I have in my shelf.
Then I start walking the path of SelfHost and try installing something new. I currently have PlusBrothers.net which is my main WordPress and activitypub based website. But I could try installing a mastodon or whatever. No idea on how easy or difficult it is.
#ActivityPub #fediverse #SelfHost #WordPress
No tengo npi de docker. ¿Es muy loco intentar montarme un searxng en una vps así a lo loco? #selfhost
Changing #OIDC provider for your #Tailscale network requires contacting their support team. Still solved fast. Thanks @tailscale
By the way, did you know you can use your own identity provider to login to Tailscale? I’m now using #PocketID for that.
Some of these lead to full-blown blog entries, but most of the time this is mainly for me to remember how to do stuff and when I've learned how it works, why not share it with all to save them the trial and error I went through ;)
https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer/gists
My newest gists:
- Configure Samba on a RHEL 10 machine for MacOS Time Machine backups https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer/gists/src/branch/main/2025/20251222MinimalSambaMac.md
- Create RPM package registries with Forgejo https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer/gists/src/branch/main/2025/20251222ForgejoRPMRepo.md
J'ai trouvé un peu de temps pour mettre à jour mes services auto-hébergés sur le NAS de la maison :
- Nextcloud : à jour ✅
- Uptime-Kuma : à jour ✅
- Immich : à jour ✅
- Gitea : à jour ✅
- Portainer (client et serveur) : à jour ✅
- et quelques autres encore...✅
