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

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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

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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

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

i found a good blog post explaining how to use systemd socket units and systemd socket proxy to automatically start a podman quadlet container on the first connection and stop it after some idle period

#blogshare #podman #quadlet #quadlets #systemd #homelab #selfhost

https://web.archive.org/web/20250726014034/https://thinkaboutit.tech/posts/2025-07-20-adhoc-containers-with-systemd-and-quadlet

i found a good blog post explaining how to use systemd socket units and systemd socket proxy to automatically start a podman quadlet container on the first connection and stop it after some idle period

#blogshare #podman #quadlet #quadlets #systemd #homelab #selfhost

https://web.archive.org/web/20250726014034/https://thinkaboutit.tech/posts/2025-07-20-adhoc-containers-with-systemd-and-quadlet

Slowly collecting the components for my personal #DigitalSovereignty stack at home :)

- Linux (obviously, I prefer Red Hat Enterprise Linux) to run containers with podman, my own DNS server, Samba server
- Forgejo for code and building with the forgejo-runner
- Step-ca to create my own x.509 certificates
- Oak for identity management
- Garage for S3 object storage
- Jellyfin for entertainment
- Immich for photos

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Slowly collecting the components for my personal #DigitalSovereignty stack at home :)

- Linux (obviously, I prefer Red Hat Enterprise Linux) to run containers with podman, my own DNS server, Samba server
- Forgejo for code and building with the forgejo-runner
- Step-ca to create my own x.509 certificates
- Oak for identity management
- Garage for S3 object storage
- Jellyfin for entertainment
- Immich for photos

(Links in next toot)

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#SelfHost @homelab