You can simply use relay instances to be interconnected with other instances to exchange posts and it works seamless with #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #snac / #snac2 and many other ones! If you're in tech, you might want to use:

https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

You can simply add it to get a bigger reach but also to get more interesting content into your own timeline which becomes even more important on single user- & smaller instances.

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Activity Pub / Fediverse Relay

I have quite a large collection (~100k) o PDF and ZIP files. Existing files never change, new files are occasionally added (<10 new files/day). I want to make those files available to a few people (<100) over HTTP. What's a good software for doing that?

At the very least I'd like the file list to load fast, and fast fuzzy searching on the file names. Bonus points if I can do full text search on the contents (most PDFs are OCRd).

#selfhost #selfhosted #homelab

#Proxmox #PVE #PBS #S3 #Garage #HowTo #OpenSource #Homelab #selfhost

https://gyptazy.com/self-hosted-s3-compatible-storage-with-garage-proxmox-backup-server-4-1/

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Proxmox Backup Server with S3 compatible storage via Garage for your datastore

When did Proxmox release an official app for iOS? I can’t find information on that, but found this 👀 #proxmox #selfhost #pve

https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/proxmox-ve-companion/id6748314140

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The image displays information about an app provided by Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH, including the app's age rating, provider details, address, phone number, and email. Legal compliance and copyright information are also included, along with navigation options for the

I went out for a few hours with my laptop to see how #Kopia would deal with being unable to connect to my S3 storage backed by #garage in my homelab and confirmed that it happily returned to updating the backups when I arrived back home. Nice :)

#SelfHost #SysAdminLife @homelab

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Kopia failing to do incremental backups as I was out with no network connection to my homelab but happily resuming the scheduled incremental backups when I was connected to my home network again.

I'll let this setup run for a few weeks and will also test restic. After that, and if all went well, including extensive restore testing, I will post a blog entry on how to replace Time Machine backups for Macs with a 100% open source stack. Yay :)

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Thank you all for sharing suggestions and experiences! Keep em coming :) I am still in the "playing around" stage, but I just finished my first backup using Kopia [1] and I am quite impressed. Initial backup from a (WiFi connected) MacBook Air to my local garage instance (the old NAS box, a HP Microserver gen10) I did around 14GB in 10 minutes.

[1] https://kopia.io

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The Kopia UI on a Mac showing how it created 14GB of backups to my local garage instance.

And again, as I always try to do, here's the (rough, basic, unfiltered) HOWTO on what I did to get Kopia with garage up and running in my homelab. (don't worry, the keys and secrets have already been rotated)

https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer/gists/src/branch/main/2025/20251227-Kopia-Garage-Backup-Mac.md

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Screenshot of storage type setup for Kopia

Anyone using S3 (compatible) storage for incremental backups of Linux and/or MacOS machines at home? If yes, what backup software/tool? Open source preferred. My first unfocused research suggests to look at restic [1] and maybe just some scripting around rclone [2]. Any hints/links welcome!

[1] https://restic.net
[2] https://rclone.org

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