Yesterday, I received an alert on the server hosted at my dad's house.
This host is often down because the humidity attacks the disks and brings down the entire host from time to time, or my dad tinkers on the electric circuit. So I wasn't worried at first.
But today, after 24 hours and no news from him, I started to be a little anxious. What could have happened? Is he safe?
I finally have an explanation. He drove to the south of the country to visit another family member but forgot to tell me he had arrived. The most important thing is that he's safe.
He also forgot to tell me that he shut down the usual electric devices including the modem, so my server was cut from the Internet for two weeks 💀
No worries daddy, I tested my DRP (Disaster Recovery Procedure) to restore my forgejo instance (https://git.riou.xyz) at my house. The procedure went well thanks to Ansible and ZFS. The service is now up and running again! 😎
The other services on this host are only important for him when he's at home so they don't need to be restored somewhere else.
#selfhosting #drp #forgejo #zfs #ansible