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Duplicity
I really like restic, and am personally happy to use it via the command line. It's very fast and efficient! However, I do wish there was better tooling / wrappers around it. For example, Pika Backup is a popular UI for Borg of which no equivalent exists for Restic. I'd love to be able to set something simple up on my partner's Macbook.
For my own purposes, I've been using a script I found on Github[0] for a while, but it only really supports Backblaze B2 AFAIK.[1]
I've been meaning to try autorestic[2] and resticprofile[3] as they are potentially more flexible than the script I'm currently using, and prestic[4] looks intriguing for my partner's use, but seems to have very few users. And the fact that there are so many competing tools makes it difficult to land on one.
[0] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler
[1] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler/i...
[2] https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic
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Advice request on the best approach to backup with restic
I have looked up and found restic to be a good choice for the many advantages it provides (reduplication, incremental copies, encryption, free, ...). I looked also at the many projects built on it to make it easier to configure (resticker, autorestic). I already made a simple test locally for my MainPC (with docker swarm) and it seems to be fine.
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duplicati has crossed me for the last time; looking for other recovery options to back up my system and docker containers (databases + configs)
I’m also using Autorestic to configure Restic via a YAML file, and I recently wrote an Ansible role to do this across multiple devices 🙂 if interested you can check it out here: https://github.com/dbrennand/ansible-role-autorestic
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Which service to backup your important files ?
There's also [autorestic][https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic), it's worth checking.
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Restic: Backups Done Right
Autorestic wraps restic in YAML config files, and for that I am very grateful.
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Suggestions for automatic self-hosted database backups?
Maybe autorestic or rclone.
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Just found what appears to be a great backup program, Kopia.
There’s also a wrapper for restic to make management easier using yaml config (autorestic) and a well-regarded docker image (resticker)
- I've rewritten autorestic (restic config file based CLI wrapper) in Go so it's faster and smaller! Backups are even easier now, maybe some of you find it useful :)
Healthchecks
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Webhooks suck, but here are alternatives
In fact, your platform (https://healthchecks.io/) is a prime example of where running customer wasm would be really excellent.
Instead of sending webhooks out to customer configured URLs, you could run a Wasm environment to execute customer code. Off hand, a good use case here is to do further inspection of the event before it gets sent off to some other system - maybe there are cases where you send false-positives and needlessly trigger external system alerts. The customer Wasm could do more introspection on the healthcheck event and make a more informed decision about how to proceed.
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What do you use for external monitoring?
i use healthchecks.io and have been very happy
with Uptime Kuma and healthchecks.io, you can do everything. Uptime Kuma to monitor "services" (web server, database), and healthchecks to monitor punctual jobs (backup jobs, etc)
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Ask HN: How do you monitor your systemd services?
If you are ok with a Saas and if it's just scheduled jobs that you are monitoring, there are a number of monitoring tools where you tell when job completes (with a http request) and a missing ping (after a grace period) means that it failed.
I think https://deadmanssnitch.com/ may have been the original service for this.
https://healthchecks.io/ has a fairly generous free tier that I use now.
There are others that do the same thing Sentry, Uptime Robot, ...
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Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler
A service in a very similar vein is https://healthchecks.io/ - which also provides a nice perspective on how low-effort the setup for a service with a substantial amount of users can be. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31488910
The blog also contains a bunch of useful information and guides around the topic, including various unusual configurations (arduino/esp8266) as well as information on self-hosting.
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Detecting and alerting for power failures
i use https://healthchecks.io/ and highly recommend it.
You can use a service like https://healthchecks.io/ for example. There is an article describing the idea here: https://www.signl4.com/blog/monitoring-still-alive-heartbeat-check/.
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Uptime site monitor - notification solutions for home while sleeping
i like healthchecks.io
What are some alternatives?
uptime-kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
cadvisor - Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.
gatus - ⛑ Automated developer-oriented status page
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
Netdata - Monitor your servers, containers, and applications, in high-resolution and in real-time.
Sentry - Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Node RED - Low-code programming for event-driven applications
AutoMySQLBackup - A fork and further development of AutoMySQLBackup from sourceforge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/
borgmatic - Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations
LibreNMS - Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Cabot - Self-hosted, easily-deployable monitoring and alerts service - like a lightweight PagerDuty
Home Assistant - :house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.