rirb VS ntfy

rirb: Mimics the prior tools but is faster since it stores the state locally and saves you having to walk it again most of the time. Vanilla rclone to restore

The problem is, it has to list both sides every time which can be slow. So I wrote the (beta) tool, rirb, to avoid that. It hasn’t been tested on Windows but should work or only need minor mods. It is beta though so take it with a grain of salt. But you don’t need anything special to restore. (Unless you use rclone crypt)

I wrote a tool that mimics the above behavior with faster listings and some convenience things: rirb

I actually wrote a tool (rirb) that uses rclone but has its own logic to mimic

But I don't use them. Here is my logic for a tool I wrote (rirb) that mimics rclone but the sentiment holds:

Rclone can be a good backup tool with the backup-dir flag and a crypt wrapper remote but it’s not a complete solution. In fact, I wrote my own tool, rirb, that mimics it but makes life easier. My justification for this approach:

Really important stuff (i.e. photos) have those plus are in OneDrive. Every night, I run rclone (well, actually, my own wrapper) to back that up to Hetzner. And it’s synced to my work computer which then also backs up.

Full point-in-time: It is theoreitcally possible (see proof of concept) but it's fragile. If this is your primary use case, check out other tools such as restic or kopia

rirb -- Reverse Incremental Rclone Backup. Github Link

Slightly related, but I've also been working on and off for a few years on my own Type 1 Diabetes management solution (https://github.com/algao1/iv3).

I haven't had time to work on it recently, but it uses ntfy (https://ntfy.sh/) to send alerts and such.

I was thinking of eventually incorporating some kind of automatic remedial solution eventually to help keep my glucose in range, but haven't had any time to look into it yet.

If you go to the settings, there should be a notification category, which then contains another menu "App Notifications" where you can see all the apps that are allowed to receive notifications, but I don't know if this will stop google play services to receive these identifiers.

I use GrapheneOS, so I don't have any google play services running, but for the apps where I need notifications I use https://unifiedpush.org/ (only a few apps implement it) and I host my own https://ntfy.sh server.

Kind of similar, in the early days of COVID, I accidentally discovered that my state's website would have test results available several hours before they sent out the "view your results" email. So I made a script that would check the site every five or ten minutes and then ping me as soon as the result changed to something besides PENDING.

In the course of that I stumbled on https://ntfy.sh/ which solved the notification problem without needing Twitter, and I've used it since then to let me know when long-running scripts complete.

I connect any app that supports https://unifiedpush.org/ to a self hosted https://ntfy.sh instance for fully self hosted push notifications

changedetection.io just donated to the awesome crew over at ntfy.sh

For further monitoring & alerting about critical cpu temperatures (unlikely now) for example, I plan to use notify & something else. Haven't thought about this much yet though.

I've started tossing https://ntfy.sh/ alerts into my Deno apps to get push notifications for things I'm interested in

ntfy.sh

If it was for fun and to learn how, that's fair. But are you aware of https://ntfy.sh?