Backup Your Kubernetes Cluster with Velero and Backblaze

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!...

February 17, 2024

Back up macOS Photos with Restic

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....

December 10, 2022