"Untested backups are just expensive hopes and dreams."

Did some proper restore-tests of my offsite backups and restored them one after another into a local virtual machine (KVM) and verified that they decrypt, restore and boot correctly 🙂 (including our Mastodon instance burningboard.net)

It's good to have backups, but it's an even better feeling when you know, they work, restore correctly and the procedure has been trained and tried out.

All check marks green, next test in January 2025 🙂

#linux #freebsd #backup #restore #devops #it #mastoadmin @tux

@evgandr @sheogorath what a day! I’ve spun up Debian lcx container, installed Dovecot to create Maildir on a nfs share with bigger storage. Then configured offlineIMAP in the container and now it’s pulling the emails from Gmail, syncing to Dovecot. The reason I need local (to my vpn) imap server is MacOS Mail.app - I want to be able to use my normal workflow to check the archive. Some much new information and experience today! #devops #dovecot

My dev environment slowly takes shape:

- FreeBSD 15.0-STABLE (BETA2)
- ZSH with oh my zsh and starship
- Neovim with TreeSitter, Mason, LSP etc. (Config: https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/nvim-ansible)

This works really great :) FreeBSD 15.0 even comes with very modern Ansible packages:

❯ ansible --version
ansible [core 2.18.7]

Yay!!

#freebsd #devops #workstation #neovim #ansible #xfce #desktop #zsh

Alt...

FreeBSD Desktop (XFCE) running 15-STABLE

I got a #email question. I have 130gb of Gmail inbox which I want to archive and downgrade my Gmail paid plan. In the same time I still want to be able to search old emails for references and old attachments. I’ve a server where I can spin a VPS or LXC and perhaps put-up a private mail server to view the exported archived box. Has anyone done it and which would be the easiest mail server to setup to handle this task? I don’t need to be able to send emails, just to read them #devops #mailserver