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Not gonna lie the all caps made it seem less urgent because I'm so used to dealing with click bait

Strictly speaking that sentence isn't wrong, but many backup systems will also include several features (like bare metal restore) that aren't going to be present in a file sync solution.

Nextcloud is great as a gdrive/Dropbox/OneDrive replacement since it's job is to replicate a folder at the profile level - but it will struggle with large files due to its upload trigger that will fire basically as the file is created. Also, most OS level files and databases won't be accessible to a process running under user-level permissions.

And while it's not a requirement, typically backup systems use point in time snapshots of entire filesystems to ensure that databases are handled in a consistent manner, rather than the ad-hoc changes that Nextcloud will operate with. To note - a simplified backup solution like a cron-scheduled rsync will also be vulnerable to application file consistency issues for the same reason.

So if the only important data on your computer is your home folder, yes, you could back your system up with Nextcloud. But you may want to have a script or automation platform of some kind to restore the OS and programs of the system running said home folder. Full system backups are great at getting your entire computer back online exactly wherever it left off from the previous backup.

And to make your terminology life a bit harder, the distinction between forward and reverse proxy matters: reverse proxies sit in front of web servers, while forward proxies sit in front of systems or networks.

Reverse proxies pretend to be the web server they're terminating traffic for - programs like nginx, Apache (https), lighttpd, and HAProxy you may see doing this.

Forward proxies need to be told where to go by a web browser, and will then (if the ACL allows) connect (and often but not always filter) the browser to the final server. In some networks, the forward proxy can be seen as something like a firewall but specifically for web traffic. The only forward proxy I know of off hand is Squid, but I imagine many more exist that I do not remember.

Synology's ActiveBackup surprised me in it's quality for being essentially a """"free"""" (*bundles with hardware) solution. In total it's saved my bacon about 4-6 times already, twice for a desktop death, two restores of my PDC, one semi-successful save of my DHCP server (it's eventual death was not ABB's fault), and one BMR simply to upgrade the disk of a laptop. (Before you ask, yes I do have two AD DCs for homelab). All in all it's a lovely product, but doesn't fit the bill as a F/OSS backup system so I don't feel it deserves a root comment in this thread. I myself have been looking for an OSS solution similar to OP, not because I dislike my ABB deployment, but because I don't want to be beholden to Synology forever. (they annoyed me s touch over the announcement of drive firmware lock in, and I do want to build my own NAS someday)

My RPO for critical assets (vCenter, AD, NAS, Unifi controller) and my personal desktops is 24h, and RTO of whenever I get to it - but the software itself is pretty fast once engaged (but not wire rate). Non critical assets are backed up on Sunday night. Schedules for both critical and non critical are staggered out along with interleaving with my Syno NAS's self-backups to USB and Backblaze. If I remember correctly, there is a "max running tasks" gate in ABB, but don't quote me on that.

Most of my infra is ESX (vSAN, iSCSI, local disk), so the majority of my backups are done using the snapshot-based VM backup feature. This goes pretty smooth and has a pretty fine grained retention schedule, so I'm happy. As a snapshot backup, you can't restore just one file, you have to restore the VM as a whole.

My other two NAS (the VMs I run TrueNAS and Nextcloud on respectively) use the file server rsync backup method. The latter is Linux and I tried the native Linux agent a while back, but I remember running into a kernel version issue since it would have to install a snapshot driver. I stopped messing with the native Linux agent at that point because I've seen what happens to XFS when you run a version of Acronis that doesn't match the kernel version (it doesn't end well for your data). Admittedly, that was the first major release of ABB for Linux, so some stuff may have changed in the intermediate. There will come a day when I need to back up a native Linux hardware box, and that day I will also select my distro as much as possible with a matching kernel release to ABB.

Windows native agent is nearly invisible and runs great. MacOS (fingers crossed) I've never had to restore from , but my low-use Mac is connected and does show it's jobs regularly running (and yes, I know it doesn't exist unless it's tested :P )

IMO the joke is more "timeless" because it uses state names instead of company names.

Imagine if instead it mentioned Xerox computers, DEC terminals*, IPX, and Ethernet hubs. We'd say "wow that comic didn't age well". Even something as recent as "EVGA GPU" will go down in history books instead of commonplace.

*Yes, I am aware that the VT100 terminal spec is from DEC. But they don't make DEC terminals anymore

10 years down the road, we don't know what tech will look like. But there is a high likelihood that the state of Pennsylvania will still exist and hold relevance.

Thank you much

What's GWM?

You know how OpenJDK works right? Not every runtime requires payment to Oracle.

And now you can listen to some cool smooth jazz and bloopers while reading the closed caption easter egg instead of watching the credits

Good pun

I have a GitHub for commenting and contributing on GitHub

I have a Gitlab for commenting and contributing on Gitlab

I have a personal gitea instance for all my personal projects.

Honestly, the project default instance is whatever makes sense for that project.

For someone that just has a bog standard Android with Voyager, what emoji are those supposed to be?

C Hypercube..... C Hyper.... Hyper C..... wait is this where HolyC fits in? (/s)

The top comment is a meme, but the free trial indeed is not time limited. It's kind of like a "free to play" version of the game.

Most of the limitations are purely social - can't send friend requests, party invites, or trades and similar. (There's a full list somewhere) But, you're still on the same servers, you can still use matchmaking, party finder, and paid accounts can send friend request and party invite to you.

What is there is going to be basically 100% of the story, side quests, and raids up to the level limit. And it will all be completable through the various matchmaking systems or NPC parties (where applicable).

It's just a mild bit harder than the regular game (since, as an MMO, it is a social game) - and much of the issues you can "solve" if you know someone that has a paid copy, or make friends in game. For the party invite specifically, I know I've seen requests go by occasionally for adding two free trials to a party - which the paid account can make and doesn't have to stay. In my free company (guild) there's a few random free trial players we've "adopted" and have in the chat linkshell, but who can't accept invite fully.

Source: I've played on both free trial to level 50 and paid to level 90.

As an IT engineer, it sounds like a tier 1 response template.

Bethesda probably needs to issue specific guidance to their support folks about what to say in that situation.

They also had an option to use a stock photo of the actual aircraft type on the ground.

/s

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And, by contributions to your Twitterspace instance, by users like you

Thank you.

(And I know you read it in the voice heh heh heh)

You can, and the search speed is much improved. I deployed that group policy to all my w10/11 boxes.

Just to be the devil's advocate here, you can make the same mistake with embedded Linux.

Any old software should not be in the network.

Out of curiosity, why did you format your comment as a code block?