A word about backups

I used to run my homeserver with EL8 on bare metal, but switched to Proxmox VE to widen the possibilities I can do with only a single box. I have utilized ZFS as the underlying file system for data for some time, and the robustness and simplicity of ZFS tooling is really nice.

The idea

I have been eyeing on Silverblue for a long time. Regular Fedora has served me well, but I’ve always felt that the idea of keeping the base OS as clean as possible would be a good idea.

A few people have found my guide for setting up VNC access on a headless box useful on GitHub, so I thought I’ll aim low and publish that same guide as one of my first posts here. It should be noted that I think Wayland makes the same setup possible with less hassle, but GNOME being the only truly usable DE on Wayland at the time of writing, it is a bit heavy for remote access. At least in my experience even on a gigabit LAN connection, the animations need to be turned off to escape the feeling of running out of bandwith.

While I don’t like the word blog, I think that it is the most accurate description for this site. I’ve been thinking of setting something like this up for a few years, but never got around to it. It still might be that there won’t be enough to say to give the impression of an active site, but that’s all right, the web is full of brief blogs with only a couple of entries.