After finalizing backups from my NAS and household computers to Backblaze’s B2 Cloud Storage, I decided it was time to do the same for my Kubernetes cluster. I use the built-in backup utility on my NAS and Restic on my household computers. After a little research, I found that Velero is a solid option for backing up Kubernetes clusters. It supports storage providers that have an AWS S3-compatible API, which includes B2 Cloud Storage!...
I occasionally need to spin up a local, short-lived VM on my workstation in order to test something on Linux. For example, I was recently testing a Kubernetes backup utility, so I created a local VM and installed K3s in it. Vagrant and VirtualBox are my go-to for this. I’m up and off to the races with just a few commands. vagrant init hashicorp/bionic64 vagrant up vagrant ssh But after seeing how easy it is to spin up a local VM with QEMU, I decided to give that a try....
My kids figured out pretty early how to capture videos and pictures on our tablets. I ran across a video recently that was taking up almost 2 GB of space in my library. I played it back to find that my toddler (at the time) had captured an hour-long video, but had left the tablet on the ground the entire time, camera facing down. The entire video was black, but the audio was pretty adorable....
Restic is a wonderfully simple backup program. I’ve used it on my Linux machines for a while. I recently decided to use it on macOS as well. restic --repo /Volumes/restic-repo --verbose backup ~/Documents ~/Pictures If you run this on macOS, you might get an error like the following from restic. The error indicates that restic can’t open the Photos library folder. can not obtain extended attribute com.apple.fileprovider.ignore#P for /Users/blachniet/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary: can not obtain extended attribute com....
Use the manual plugin and DNS challenge in certbot to obtain a wildcard Let’s Encrypt TLS certificate. Subdomains only. You can only use this wildcard certificate on subdomains (e.g. www.example.com, mail.example.com). You cannot use it for the apex domain (e.g. example.com). Obtain a separate certificate for the apex domain. $ certbot certonly --manual --preferred-challenges dns -d '*.example.com' Create the TXT record as instructed by certbot. Before continuing, use dig or Google’s Dig tool to confirm the records is applied....