Backblaze B2 + rclone: Tiered Backup at Real-World Costs
Stop burning money on AWS egress fees. Here is how to build a real tiered backup strategy using Backblaze B2 plus rclone for your home lab setup in 2026.
Tag: storage
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Ceph for a 3-Node Home Lab: When It Actually Pays Off
Ceph on 3 nodes: real hardware requirements, honest performance tradeoffs, and exactly when distributed storage beats a plain NFS share for your home lab.
Snapper for Btrfs Snapshots on Root Filesystems
Set up Snapper on Btrfs to auto-snapshot before every system update, roll back broken machines in minutes, and never lose a working root filesystem again.
Kopia Repository Server: Multi-Host Backups Done Right
Stop letting every machine write directly to S3. Kopia repository server gives you shared dedup, per-host auth, and sane maintenance — all in one place.
ZFS Send/Receive Over WireGuard for Off-Site Replication
Pipe ZFS incremental snapshots through WireGuard to a friend's NAS or a remote VPS. Encrypted in transit and at rest — no rsync.net bill or vendor lock-in.
Restic Repository Maintenance: Prune, Check, Forget
Your restic repo is ballooning. Learn forget, prune, and check — the right order, real flags, automation, and why full check can wreck your entire weekend.
mergerfs + SnapRAID: The Poor Man's Unraid
Skip the $129 Unraid license. mergerfs + SnapRAID gives you flexible JBOD pooling with parity protection on mismatched drives you already own for free.
Object Storage on a Pi: SeaweedFS Cluster Walkthrough
Run a real S3-compatible object storage cluster on Raspberry Pi 4s with SeaweedFS — low RAM overhead, fast filer, no Ceph drama or surprise cloud bills.
Bind Mounts vs NFS for Container Storage
Bind mounts are fast and simple; NFS is shared and flexible for containers. Pick wrong and your database corrupts at 2 AM. Here is how to choose wisely.
Bcachefs in 2026: Ready or Not
Bcachefs landed in Linux mainline but controversy followed fast. An honest look at stability, performance, and whether it belongs in your home lab in 2026.
RAID Is Not Backup: Rebuild Math
Your RAID 5 rebuild on a modern multi-TB drive has a 40-50% chance of hitting a URE before it finishes. Here's the 2026 math and what to do about it.
RAID 6 vs RAID 10: Two Dead Disks
Both RAID 6 and RAID 10 survive two simultaneous drive deaths. Both need four drives minimum. But they do it completely differently — and that difference matters.