May 3 · 5 min read · So you finally set up Barman to handle your PostgreSQL backups. You followed the docs, configured your server, ran barman check and... a wall of FAILED messages stares back at you. Cool. Very reassuring for your disaster recovery strategy. I've been ...
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Apr 30 · 9 min read · The day I realised I had never tested a production backup TL;DR — I had run dozens of test-backup restore drills and felt safe. What I had never done was pull a real production snapshot, decrypt it, and bring it up in a sandbox. The day I finally di...
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Apr 28 · 5 min read · If you manage PostgreSQL in production, you probably felt a chill when the news hit Hacker News: pgbackrest appears to no longer be actively maintained. For a tool that's been the backbone of PostgreSQL backup strategies for years, that's a big deal....
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Apr 27 · 9 min read · The sed that didn't stick TL;DR - The nightly backup on one of my self-hosted servers kept failing. I patched the running container with a single sed command, ran the backup by hand, watched it succeed, and went to bed thinking I had it. The next mo...
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Apr 22 · 7 min read · In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations face mounting challenges in managing vast amounts of unstructured data generated by AI, IoT devices, and digital transformations. This surg
Join discussionApr 22 · 9 min read · The day I realised I had never tested a production backup TL;DR — I had run dozens of test-backup restore drills and felt safe. What I had never done was pull a real production snapshot, decrypt it, and bring it up in a sandbox. The day I finally di...
Join discussionApr 22 · 11 min read · Building backupctl: what it took to replace a cron job with a backup service If you've ever strung pg_dump | gzip | rclone into a cron job and promised yourself you'd clean it up later — this post is for you. I've been there. And "later" usually arri...
Join discussionApr 22 · 11 min read · Building backupctl: what it took to replace a cron job with a backup service If you've ever strung pg_dump | gzip | rclone into a cron job and promised yourself you'd clean it up later — this post is for you. I've been there. And "later" usually arri...
Join discussionApr 14 · 5 min read · Backblaze Unlimited Cloud Backup Review 2026 - The Ultimate Cloud Storage Solution for Data Protection? (2026 Guide) Meta: "Unlimited cloud backup reviews for home and business use, expertly tested 2026, with comparisons and pros and cons." Are you t...
Join discussionApr 11 · 5 min read · Self-hosting your analytics with Umami is a brilliant move. You own your data, you respect your users' privacy, and you aren't feeding the big-tech tracking machine. But self-hosting comes with one ma
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