Since the latest changes and optimizations I did some 2-3 weeks ago for Friendica, our instance became so fast it is unbelievable. Go from one page to another in less than 1-2 seconds, at times it feels instant. Amazing! #tromstuff
Rentrée politique : Médine, mauvais élève des universités d’été ?
Le rappeur Médine, invité aux universités d’été de EELV et LFI s’est retrouvé, au cœur d’une campagne médiatique islamophobe instrumentalisant la lutte contre l’antisémitisme. Cette dernière devrait être prise davantage au sérieux par la gauche.
Le mois d’août aura été marqué par l’invitation de Médine aux universités d’été de EELV et LFI. De l’extrême droite à Renaissance on a profité de l’invitation du rappeur pour dénoncer son présumé antisémitisme. Médine est depuis longtemps une cible pour l’ex
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I was running all of our websites - see status.tromsite.com (plus our personal ones) from 2 servers paying 68 Euros a month. On TROM.tf I was at the limit of our storage space. Now I run the same websites with some 72 Euros a month and double the storage space, via 2 hosting companies (never put all eggs into one basket) - Webdock and Hetzner.
Plus I need to pay 270 Euros a year for backing up all of our servers to BorgBase. 4TB of data.
Lastly I pay 13 Euros a month for my and my family's personal files backups (5TB - plenty of storage for years to come).
A few days ago someone was asking me over email how can I sustain TROM financially with so many services and projects. Well it is because I work a lot to manage these servers and backups, else it would be 5 times more expensive. And thanks to @YunoHost I am able to provide the many services we provide via TROM.tf. Without th
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I was running all of our websites - see status.tromsite.com (plus our personal ones) from 2 servers paying 68 Euros a month. On TROM.tf I was at the limit of our storage space. Now I run the same websites with some 72 Euros a month and double the storage space, via 2 hosting companies (never put all eggs into one basket) - Webdock and Hetzner.
Plus I need to pay 270 Euros a year for backing up all of our servers to BorgBase. 4TB of data.
Lastly I pay 13 Euros a month for my and my family's personal files backups (5TB - plenty of storage for years to come).
A few days ago someone was asking me over email how can I sustain TROM financially with so many services and projects. Well it is because I work a lot to manage these servers and backups, else it would be 5 times more expensive. And thanks to @YunoHost I am able to provide the many services we provide via TROM.tf. Without them there would be no TROM.tf. I wish I had more money to support them too, a little bit. But TROM is far from being financially sustainable.
But damn I love that we have our own social network, video platform, cloud for files and collaboration, chat, and more. Thanks to the open source projects like Friendica, Peertube, Matrix, Nextcloud and so forth.
Palästina-Israel: Kein Frieden ohne das Ende der Besatzung, der Kolonisierung und der Apartheidç-*
Auf Gräueltaten folgen Gräueltaten. Die Ermordung von mehreren hundert Zivilist:innen in Israel ist eine Tragödie. Diese Tragödie hätte es nicht gegeben, wenn Tausende von Zivilist:innen nicht seit 2008 durch israelische Bombenangriffe unter Trümmern in Gaza begraben worden wären. Man kann nicht ein ganzes Volk unterdrücken, ausbeuten, aushungern und im Freiluftgefängnis Palästina einsperren, ohne Konsequenzen zu erwarten: Das ist der erste Schluss, den wir n
PalÀstina-Israel: Kein Frieden ohne das Ende der Besatzung, der Kolonisierung und der Apartheidç-*
Auf GrĂ€ueltaten folgen GrĂ€ueltaten. Die Ermordung von mehreren hundert Zivilist:innen in Israel ist eine Tragödie. Diese Tragödie hĂ€tte es nicht gegeben, wenn Tausende von Zivilist:innen nicht seit 2008 durch israelische Bombenangriffe unter TrĂŒmmern in Gaza begraben worden wĂ€ren. Man kann nicht ein ganzes Volk unterdrĂŒcken, ausbeuten, aushungern und im FreiluftgefĂ€ngnis PalĂ€stina einsperren, ohne Konsequenzen zu erwarten: Das ist der erste Schluss, den wir nach dem Ausbruch tödlicher Gewalt am 7. Oktober ziehen mĂŒssen. Der Staat Israel reagiert mit einem neuen Kreislauf von Zerstörung und Massakern. Stattdessen soll er endlich begreifen, dass sein koloniales System unhaltbar ist. Freiheit fĂŒr PalĂ€stina!
Am Samstag, den 7. Oktober, startete die Hamas ihren bisher grössten Angriff auf das israelische Staatsgebiet und israelische Siedlungen. Mit dem koordinierten Angriff zerstörte sie die Mauer um Gaza an mehreren Stellen, nahm mehrere Dörfer entlang der Mauer ein und entfĂŒhrte mindestens 100 Soldat:innen und Zivilist:innen. Die israelische Armee und der israelische Geheimdienst wurden völlig ĂŒberrascht. Sie begannen jedoch einen Ă€usserst brutalen Gegenschlag im Gazastreifen sowie im SĂŒdlibanon nach dem Abschuss von Raketen durch die Hisbollah, die libanesische VerbĂŒndete der Hamas. Es gab mehrere hundert palĂ€stinensische und israelische Todesopfer.
Die Hamas hatte ihren Angriff in Gaza sorgfĂ€ltig vorbereitet und einen historisch bedeutsamen Tag gewĂ€hlt, den 50. Jahrestag des Beginns des Krieges 1973, in dem Ăgypten und Syrien Israel gegenĂŒberstanden. Es handelte sich um einen Gegenschlag gegen die kolonialistische Apartheidpolitik des Staates Israel und seiner faschistischen, rassistischen [âŠ] und kolonialistischen Regierung, die in den letzten Monaten die Provokationen vervielfacht (Armee auf dem Tempelberg, Vertreibung von PalĂ€stinenser:innen, Ablehnung jeder politischen und friedlichen Lösung) und den Siedlungsbau im Westjordanland verstĂ€rkt unterstĂŒtzt hat. Es handelt sich auch um einen Gegenschlag gegen die laufende diplomatische Normalisierung der Beziehungen zwischen Israel und den Golfstaaten, insbesondere Saudi-Arabien, und die anhaltende UnterstĂŒtzung des israelischen Regimes durch die USA [âŠ] und die EuropĂ€ische Union. Es handelt sich vor allem um eine Folge der 75-jahrelangen Kolonisierung, brutalen und rassistischen Ausbeutung, Besetzung und Apartheid des Staates Israel, mit PalĂ€stinenser:innen, israelischer Araber:innen, Drus:innen, JĂŒd:innen aus Ăthiopien⊠als Leidtragende. Und eine Folge der Ablehnung jeder politischen Lösung fĂŒr ein friedliches Zusammenleben, der Aberkennung des RĂŒckkehrrechts der GeflĂŒchtetenâ (auch wenn dies von den Vereinten Nationen garantiert sei), der seit mehr als 15 Jahren andauernden Blockade des Gazastreifens und der tĂ€glichen Diskriminierung und Gewalt.
Die Stromversorgung und Lieferung von KonsumgĂŒtern in den Gazastreifen wurden von der rechtsextremen Netanjahu-Regierung ausgesetzt. Dabei sind die Bewohner:innen des Gazastreifens fĂŒr die Befriedigung ihrer GrundbedĂŒrfnisse darauf angewiesen. Die Regierung Israels warnte, dass sie sich "im Krieg" befinde und dass der Vergeltungsschlag der brutalste der letzten Jahre sein werde. Was dies bedeutet, wurde klar, als sie die Bevölkerung dazu aufforderte, aus dem (nördlichen Teil) des Gazastreifens (in den sĂŒdlichen Teil) zu fliehen und zeitgleich die ersten Bombenangriffen auf den Gazastreifen durchfuhr. Diese korrupte Regierung, die in den letzten Monaten an riesigen Demonstrationen von einem beachtlichen Teil der israelischen Bevölkerung kritisiert wurde, fĂŒhrt einen permanenten mörderischen Krieg gegen die palĂ€stinensische Bevölkerung und rechtfertigt ihren Machterhalt mit einer autoritĂ€ren Sicherheitspolitik. Es ist diese israelische Regierung, die die Verantwortung fĂŒr den Krieg und die Toten auf beiden Seiten trĂ€gt. Wie immer ist es die Zivilbevölkerung, die den Preis fĂŒr die von den imperialistischen herrschenden Klassen beschlossenen Kriege zahlt. Die nĂ€chsten Tage werden zeigen, ob die Offensive der Hamas das Ende der Regierung Netanjahus einlĂ€utet oder im Gegenteil die Bevölkerung sich im Krieg hinter ihm vereint. Die aktuelle Situation ist jedenfalls ein Beweis fĂŒr das Scheitern einer Politik, die eine imperialistische und militĂ€rische Lösung in PalĂ€stina anstrebt.
Wir bedauern die zivilen Opfer, die nicht den Preis fĂŒr die politischen Strategien des Staates Israel oder der Hamas zahlen mĂŒssten. Die Hamas ist eine nationalistische und religiös-fundamentalistische Bewegung, die aus der Muslimbruderschaft hervorgegangen ist und sich historisch auf Kosten der sĂ€kularen revolutionĂ€ren KrĂ€fte aufgebaut hat. Wir lehnen es ab, dass UnterstĂŒtzer:innen des palĂ€stinensischen Widerstands in Europa kriminalisiert und als "Terrorist:innen" bezeichnet werden. Wir wenden uns auch gegen jede Instrumentalisierung der Gewalt fĂŒr rassistische Zwecke, sei sie antiarabisch oder antisemitisch oder zur UnterstĂŒtzung autoritĂ€rer Regime wie dem Iran, dem HauptunterstĂŒtzer der Hamas, [...] die nicht mit dem palĂ€stinensischen Volk verwechselt werden darf.
Wir wiederholen unsere Forderungen nach einem Ende der Kolonisierung und Apartheid in PalĂ€stina sowie nach der Einhaltung der internationalen Resolutionen (Teilung des Staatsgebiets, Recht auf RĂŒckkehr usw.) als Voraussetzung fĂŒr eine langfristige Lösung (1). Wir unterstĂŒtzen den sĂ€kularen, demokratischen und revolutionĂ€ren Widerstand des palĂ€stinensischen Volkes und alle antikolonialen israelischen Oppositionellen und Aktivist:innen.
Wir fordern ein Ende der von der israelischen Armee und der Hamas begangenen Gewalttaten, die der Zivilbevölkerung auf beiden Seiten grosses Leid zufĂŒgen. Wir teilen nicht die Ideologie der Hamas, der die gerechten Bestrebungen des palĂ€stinensischen Volkes nicht am Herzen liegen. Wir unterstĂŒtzen den palĂ€stinensischen Widerstands- und Befreiungskampf. Wir verstehen, dass dieser Kampf manchmal Strategien der Gewalt erfordert, die aus der politischen Blockadesituation entstehen. Wir rufen zur Entmilitarisierung des Staates Israel auf und fordern, dass tatsĂ€chlich auf eine Lösung hingewirkt wird, die sich auf den legitimen Forderungen des palĂ€stinensischen Volkes beruht. Dies sind die erforderlichen Bedingungen fĂŒr jede dauerhafte Lösung des Konflikts.
FuĂnote: (1) In diesem Zusammenhang sei an mehrere Punkte erinnert: 1- dass die Kolonisierung PalĂ€stinas und die Vertreibung der PalĂ€stinenser:innen von ihrem Land seit ĂŒber einem Jahrhundert andauert und lange vor 1948 begonnen hat, 2- dass Israel nie eine der UN-Resolutionen von 1967 erfĂŒllt hat, die es verpflichten, die besetzten Gebiete zu verlassen und das RĂŒckkehrrecht der FlĂŒchtlinge umzusetzen, 3- dass die Friedensabkommen von 1993 (Osloer Abkommen) die Kolonisierung in Wirklichkeit nur noch verstĂ€rkt haben, 4- dass die PalĂ€stinenserinnen und PalĂ€stinenser tĂ€glich fast einen Toten zu beklagen haben, zusĂ€tzlich zu den Wasser- und Stromabschaltungen, dem Landraub und den tĂ€glichen Angriffen der Siedler, und 5- dass Staaten wie Frankreich mit Kriminalisierung reagieren, wenn weltweit SolidaritĂ€t in Form einer friedlichen Kampagne, der BDS-Kampagne, zum Ausdruck gebracht wird.
I made a huge article about how I backup TB of files from 4 laptops for just 13 Euros a month tiotrom.com/2023/10/the-best-b… - and how I discovered an amazing app, Kopia, that makes the backup process such a breeze. :)
I made a huge article about how I backup TB of files from 4 laptops for just 13 Euros a month tiotrom.com/2023/10/the-best-b⊠- and how I discovered an amazing app, Kopia, that makes the backup process such a breeze. :)
Disclaimer: I only have used this for less than a week but I plan to use this for years to come. My excitement compels me to write an article about it.
Backups. So useless 99% of the time, but when you need them, that 1% of the time, they are crucial. I lost TB of files, twice, by mistake, and I had no backups, so that made me be extremely cautions about securing the survival of my digital files. And the files of my family.
The challenge: 4 laptops, around 3TB of files, and hundreds of thousands if not millions of them. From tiny files to tens of GB in size. I need them to be backed-up daily in at least 1 safe place. Sounds easy? WellâŠmay not be.
Local backups plus file sync.
I used to backup all of my files on external HDDâs that I kept in a shoebox attached with a lot of umbilical cords to my laptop. I was syncing them with FreeFileSync since I found it easy to use. You have a left side where you can select directories you want to back up, and a right side where you can select where to sync. But ofc you had to go through some settings and put on some rules about what to do with the deleted files and so forth. Plus you had to create a CRON job to automate the process. Took me some time to figure that thing out. On top of this some files were not properly copied. This was hardly a backup solution. It was sketchy.
Setting this up for the other laptops was not feasible since you would need the FreeFileSync to copy files over the internet from their laptops to my HDD. Ttherefore I used Syncthing to basically sync the files from the other laptops (my family) to my external HDDs. When you need to sync hundreds of thousands of files like that, it is a pain in the ass. Slow, unreliable.
So basically it was difficult, slow, and I was entirely attached to my desk and the drives. No good!
I also tried DejaDup Backups and although super easy to use, it was never that reliable and too simplistic.
Borg, Vorta and Pika.
Before using these I tried a traditional backup method for those who wanna âpay and backupâ. Simple as that. Mega. I was paying around 20 ⏠a month for 8TB. Fuckers only provide 2TB or 8TB but nothing in between. I needed only 4TB or so⊠Anyway, with Mega it is easy to backup, files were encrypted, they have a good Linux desktop client. I was doing that in parallel with the local backups. But it was not as reliable and would always backup, or sync to Mega. Not every X hours or daily, but ALWAYS. Plus I was relying on them and them only, and their website to go through my files and restore any. And took ages to decrypt my files in the browser to then access themâŠ.I felt uncomfortable to use Mega and it was a bit expensive. Plus I could not easily backup the other laptops to the same Mega account.
In all, it was not that great.
Borg. A new way to do backups.
Mega is designed for filesharing, but Borg is for backups. They must be good! But the truth is, a bit complicated. Now, to backup with Borg locally you need either Vorta or Pika, since I am not aware of any other tool for the job that is easy to use.
Pause!
I know there are many people passionate about computers who rsync and restic into ssh sources and daemon-kickstart their backups. I do not want that! I want an app with an interface that I can easily setup for me and my family. I do not do backups because is fun, but because I want to easily backup my files and restore them.
So with Vorta you open it and have to understand how and why they use ârepositoriesâ, else you are lost. Repository meansâŠ.wellâŠhard to explain but you have to select this: Then choose a folder/drive on your computer where Vorta will create this repository, which is a bunch of files with rules, containing data about your backups. Once you understand this concept is easy. Select a local path then navigate the oldish Vorta interface to select what files you want to backup. Vorta also advertises their borgbase.com, their paid service: And that does not sit well with me.
They also use this âPruneâ notion to delete old backups. In all Vorta is quite messy I would say hard to navigate. For me at least. But it gets the job done. Locally, from what I remember, it took a few days to backup my 2TB files because it is also encrypting them and compressing them. So good that 2TB may transform in less than 1TB in the repository. Thatâs fantastic!
The incremental backups are also fantastic and take only a few minutes. Therefore only the first backup is slow. To access your backups you have to go to âarchivesâ, select one, then either âextractâ it â which means youâll be able to download all of it, or parts, somewhere â or âmountâ it which asks you to select a folder on your computer where it will mount it all. The âmountâ part is what Borg introduced me to, and it is fabulous. It basically creates a folder where you can access ALL of your backed-up folders and files. These are NOT on my computer, they are âstreamedâ from the backups drive into a mounted directory: Which means I can access how my computer files were 6 months ago, if I have backups for those, and navigate them and copy from it to my computer anything that I want, while being able to preview any file.
Stop for a moment to think how useful this is. It is like going back in time, via your file manager, and see your files. Resurrect the dead 2.0!
This is even more amazing when you backup to an online location.
Borg plus Online = Hard.
The same concept and gymnastics apply when you backup to an online location. Remember, I need to backup 4 laptops not just mine. So I decided to rely mostly, if not only, on online backups.
Online backups.
LookâŠIâve heard that people say that you have to backup in 2 different locations and one should be local. But letâs be honest, most people do not do any sort of backups and they are fine most of the time. And backing up to an online location is damn secure nowadays. What can happen? The datacenter may be destroyed? Most datacenters have backups anyway so they can restore immediately, and overall it is so rare for this to happen. Almost never.
Second potential problem: these online providers may close your account for some reasons. But super unlikely. If you do encrypted backups and no one knows what you are storing, why would they? Yes they can close your account if you use their storage locations to store âillegalâ files that you publicly shareâŠ.but elseâŠ
So I decided to rely on online backups and also finally detach my laptop form the umbilical cords.
Problem numero 1.
For Borg to work you need to find a hosting that provides Borg backups. The server itself NEEDS to have Borg installed on their side too. Right now I only know 2-3 such provides. So from the get-go this is already very limiting. I chose BorgBase since they seem to be the cheapest and most reliable. But for some 4TB of storage you have to pay around 23 ⏠a month. Mega is twice as cheap.
Problem numero 2.
Fucking SSH keysâŠ
I wonât rant again about them, but it was always a pain to create one on my machine, then add to BorgBase, then add to the repo, then connect the two. At times it wonât connect. In short, it was always uncomfortable for me with the SSH keys and 4 laptops. I am still confused about them. I hate them!
BorgBase!
So I ended up setting repositories with BorgBase for everyone and backing up there, daily. Despite being a lot more expensive than Mega, it was a lot more reliable and I felt more comfortable using it.
But I cannot tell my girlfriend, sister, or parents to use Vorta in case they may want to restore something. Because it is too complicated. So I thought to try Pika.
Pika â great and unreliable.
This one is light years better than Vorta in terms of the interface. Easy! Files to backup, files to exclude, Archives⊠Even the schedule is sane: I can give instructions to my mother over the phone and she can manage it no problem. I cannot say that about VortaâŠ.
HoweverâŠto connect to BorgBase is not something my mother can do. So I have to create a new repository on BorgBase.com for my mother, copy the URL for it, add to Pika. Open the terminal on her laptop and figure out whatâs the command for creating an SSH key. Create! Find out the command to display it. Copy the key. Go to BorgBase and add it to the Keys section. Then go to the repository I created for my mother on BorgBase and attach the key to it.
Only after that connect to the repository via Pika. I donât like it, but I did it for everyone.
And guess what, at times this SSH key needs to be âunlockedâ with a master password on your XFCE desktop and if you are not prompted for it when you reboot, then Pika is like âI cannot connect there is no SSH key I can useâ. So for example on my sisterâs laptop the backups with Pika failed multiple times because of this.
Am telling you the SSH keys suck balls đ
The main issue with Pika. It is slow.
This is something that I reported to the developers. Pika was several times slower than Vorta to backup. So slow I had to use Vorta to do the first backup for everyone, before using Pika to pick it up on the incremental backups. I remember backing up a few hundreds of GB for my sisterâs laptop and it was like 10% after several days.
If Pika wasnât so slow, it would definitely be worth using it. But if you do not have to backup a lot of files, it can be ok. It is a reason why I added Pika as the default backup tool in TROMjaro. It is great overall!
Pika can also mount archives like Vorta and it can even backup to FTP/SFTP sources. And thatâs the key for finding out the best backup tool!
Kopia â the best!
We have used Pika and Vorta for the past 2 or so years. Pika was unreliable at times for a few of us. And Borg overall limited in terms of hosting choices and a pain to setup. Plus expensive.
A backup tool needs to have a simple interface; to allow you to easily control what to backup and what to exclude; to allow you to manually delete old backups; to make it easy to schedule and to restore. Plus to support different locations: SFTP/FTP, WebDav, S3, localâŠ
Kopia is an app I found a few days ago while I was trying to find out how the hell to move from BorgBase to a Hetzner Box which supports Borg.
Hetzner provides some really cheap storage boxes. Look: For 13 ⏠a month you can get a 5TB storage, half as cheap as BorgBase. Mega was 20 ⏠for 8TB, Hetzner is 26 ⏠for 10 TB. So Hetzner is almost as cheap as Mega. Plus look how many protocols it supports: I tried for several days to make Pika/Vorta borg backups work with Hetzner, but because of multiple SSH keys failures I gave up. No more Borg, thatâs it! Fuck those SSH keys!
So I tried Pika via SFTP to Hetzner. Connecting via SFTP is 100 times easier. You get an URL, a username, and a password from Hetzner. Add that to Pika and voila. Connected!
Problem is when I tried to backup my 2TB with Pika to Hetzner it took almost 2 days to backup 3%. Terrible. I had to try something else.
Ok, so whatâs this Kopia?
Well it is open source, does encrypted backups by default and with compression, does not promote any hosting so it is independent, and it looks a bit oldish or Windows-ish. Those were my first impressions. I quickly found it in TROMjaro Add/Remove Software as KopiaUI. And it looks like this: Not badâŠAnd all of those are the protocols that it supports. Yes we see Google there and Azure, but well in case people wanna use these to backupâŠ.
So I like that it is so straight forward from the get go. I go and select WebDav since Hetzner supports it. 3 fields. Completed them and connected in less than 30 seconds to Hetzner! See that Borg? See that SSH key nonsense? đ
And this was the first WOW, fuck I love it! moment. No more BS SSH keys. Thatâs it. Connected.
You see they also use repositories and now I understand why this is great. Once I connected to my Hetzner WebDav, Kopia created some config files there and from that moment on it will update those files based on the changes I make via Kopia. I will explain later why this is amazing!
Ok, next step. They call backups as âsnapshotsâ. Click and see this: Select the folder/directory you want to backup. I chose my entire Home folder. From here on can be a bit more complicated but it is totally worth it!
Policies!
If they called these ârulesâ would have been better, because thatâs what they are. So in Policies click edit on your snapshot that you have created. Here you will see a lot of options but here are the important ones.
Snapshot Retention (how many backups to keep): This can be confusing but most backup apps use this approach. I want mine to be kept for 30 days, like imagine the past 30 days I have a backup a day. Then for each week to have 20. So for the past 20 weeks, that can go back some 5 months, a backup a week. 12 a month means the same, basically I could have a backup from june, one from mach, or january, and go back 12 months. Took me a bit to understand what these meanâŠ.
Then Files is meant to be about ignoring certain files or directories: I am still unsure if you should add the path with / or without, so I added both. You have to add this manually. Pika is far superior in terms of UI.
Next in Compression: I selected the one that you see there. You have lots of options. Not for casual users, but wellâŠmake sure you select a compression so that the size of your backups is reduced.
Lastly: Scheduling. To schedule how often to take a snapshot. Bellow all of those is a save button. Save it!
This was the hardest part. Once you learn to navigate that part a bit, thatâs it. No more headaches. Trust me this is better than setting up Borg with SSH keys :D.
Now simply go to Snapshots and click: Snapshot Now to create your snapshot. Keep in mind this app is actually quite simple and efficient. You only have Snapshots, where your backups are. Policies to edit the rules of how your snapshots will be taken, and the rest 2 are for Tasks to see what tasks have been made or, Preferences for a few settings. It really is not much to it. And thatâs fantastic! Except setting up those policies, all is easy.
Fast as hell!
2TB of data backed-up in less than 20 hours, and compressed to 1.4TB. Remember, same files, same server, took Pika 2 days to backup 3%. Would take Vorta a few days to backup to BorgBase.
But I was shocked at how fast it is. And it never crashed.
Easy to restore.
Click the Snapshots, then the âpathâ â basically your snapshot, and youâll see them all: Very easy! I also like the retention tags, the colorful ones.
Now say I wanna restore from the 17th of October. Click it and youâll see a list of your directories and files: What I suggest now is to click the top Mount as Local Filesystem button. And then browse: And this does what Vorta and Pika do, mounting the backup on your system. Again, this is NOT on my computer: This is from Hetzner but I can browse it as if it is on my computer. How fucking cool! And Kopia is much faster when it mounts them than Vorta for example. Actually Kopia is instant for me.
Icon tray thatâs sane! So simple. Choose to start it on boot, or connect to another repository.
Move it anywhere!
So after I backed-up 2TB of data to Hetzner via WebDav with Kopia, I removed all of the Kopia settings files from my laptop, almost like starting Kopia as brand new. Then I moved ALL of the repository files and backups (1.4TB) from Hetzner to another location on the same Hetzner box. So almost like being on another server. Opened Kopia and it was as if I opened it for the first time. No more backups or anything.
Added the WebDav credentials that would point to the new Hetzner location where the repository was, and in less than a minute Kopia brought back all of my backups and settings.
From this: To this: In seconds.
How cool!
This means that I can move the entire Kopia repository anywhere, including locally on a drive, and simply point Kopia to it and we are back on track in minutes! Tell me this isnât amazing!
Imagine if I find a better alternative to Hetzner. I can move the repository from Hetzner to the new location and then point Kopia to it, and voila. All back!
I cannot do this with Borg. At least not easy at all.
Kopia + Hetzner
I will give you more info about how I set it all up. Remember, 4 laptops need to be backed-up.
In the Hetzner Storage Box panel you can create sub-accounts. These accounts have access to only the folder you give them access too. Like in the example bellow, Sasha only has access to the folder Backups/Sasha and cannot access the other folders: When you create such a user Hetzner gives you a username and password. Save them. For example when I created the user for Sasha I saved the username (different from Sasha, unique to this storage box), and password. She needs those plus an URL like: https://her-username.your-storagebox.de.
Thatâs all. She can connect to it via Kopia WebDav in seconds.
Side-note: you also have a MAIN admin user for the entire Hetzner box that you can find in the panel. That user has access to all of the folders for all of the users. I used that admin user to connect in the same way to my Nextcloud account via TROM Files. Simply go to Personal Settings and then External Storage and add a WebDav connection: Now I have extended my Nextcloud storage to 5TB :D. And I can access the entire box. Thatâs how I created the folders for the other users. So yeah, you can use the Hetzner Storage Boxes to expand your TROM Files storage to massive amounts.
So yeah, basically you can easily create new sub-accounts on Hetzner and give WebDav access to whoever you want. Thatâs how I now do the backups.
Hetzner also allows for automated snapshots of the entire storage box: And these snapshots take very little storage space: Imagine if by mistake you delete your backups from Kopia or who knows how. You can restore them via the Hetzner snapshots. Neat! Double the safety!
Conclusions.
13 ⏠a month for 5TB, 4 different users with access to WebDav, plus Kopia on individual laptops.
5TB should be enough for many years to come, so it is totally worth it.
Kopia is not as nice looking as Pika, and their âPoliciesâ can be a bit confusing, but else it is so to-the-point, fast, flexible, and reliable. And it is way more than what I presented. See here.
I feel much better now when I know that I can move my backups anywhere and still have them work with Kopia in less than a minute.
Plus doing all of my backups online makes me more free to use my laptop as a laptop. Fuck those cables, I got sick of using them for so many years. I need to keep a balance between security/safety and comfort/mobility.
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in reply to Anmol Sharma • •Well first of all I am using a daemon and not cron jobs via this tutorial nequalsonelifestyle.com/2022/0âŠ
Then In /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf and add Under [mariadb]:
You can also add to the same file under mariadb and mysql:
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