How I use Glance, Gatus, Grafana and Gotify to see what is available, investigate problems and keep security notifications useful.

How Caddy, CoreDNS and DNS-01 certificates give private services friendly names and trusted HTTPS without opening them to the internet.

The practical lessons I took from wiping my TrueNAS server and recovering years of family photos.

How my Raspberry Pi 4 backup is now running at a separate location, how the encrypted Restic snapshots reach it over Tailscale, and what the confirmed backup results show.

The restore checks I am using after discovering that a backup job completing does not prove the data can be recovered.

What my Restic backup covers, what it does not cover, and why configuration backups are still valuable during a recovery.

How local snapshots, encrypted cloud backups and a Raspberry Pi fit together, and which recovery tests have actually passed.

Recovering my family photos taught me that a backup is only useful when it can be unlocked, restored and verified.

How I have been using Hermes Agent to document, maintain and improve my Linux workstation and homelab.

I accidentally wiped my main TrueNAS server and thought years of family photos were gone. This is how I recovered them from a messy collection of replicas, cloud backups and an old Immich installation.