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Storage & Backups
The part of the stack you forget about until you really, really wish you hadn't. ZFS without the cult, Btrfs with the caveats, LVM when you still need it, plus the backup tooling that earns its keep — Restic, Borg, Kopia, restic-rest, S3 targets, off-site replication. Snapshots are not backups. Backups you haven't restored aren't backups either.
34 articles in this topic.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All Storage & Backups articles
- Backblaze B2 + rclone: Tiered Backup at Real-World Costs
- Ceph for a 3-Node Home Lab: When It Actually Pays Off
- Snapper for Btrfs Snapshots on Root Filesystems
- Kopia Repository Server: Multi-Host Backups Done Right
- ZFS Send/Receive Over WireGuard for Off-Site Replication
- Restic Repository Maintenance: Prune, Check, Forget
- mergerfs + SnapRAID: The Poor Man's Unraid
- Object Storage on a Pi: SeaweedFS Cluster Walkthrough
- Bind Mounts vs NFS for Container Storage
- Bcachefs in 2026: Ready or Not
- RAID Is Not Backup: Rebuild Math
- RAID 6 vs RAID 10: Two Dead Disks
- RAID 0, 1, and 5: Pick One
- ZFS vs Btrfs: Which Modern Filesystem Wins?
- Find out whats taking up all the hdd space
- IPFS: Peer-to-Peer File Storage for People Who've Seen Too Many 404s
- Disk Space Tools in 2026: Beyond du and df
- Self-Hoster's Disaster Recovery: When Everything Goes Wrong at Once
- You Should Be Testing Your Restores
- Tmpfs vs Ramfs: When Your Disk Is Too Slow and Your RAM Is Just Sitting There
- Restic vs Borg vs Kopia: Backup Tools for People Who've Lost Data Before
- Why Self-Hosted Apps Lose Data After Updates
- MinIO vs SeaweedFS: Self-Hosted S3 Storage Without AWS Bills
- MinIO + Nextcloud: S3-Compatible Storage That's Actually Yours
- LVM Advanced: Snapshots, Thin Provisioning, and Not Losing Your Data
- Docker Volumes vs Bind Mounts: Where Your Data Actually Lives
- Is Your Linux Server Destroying Its SSD?
- Cleaning Up Docker Disk Space the Right Way
- zram vs Swap: What's Actually Faster for Low-RAM Servers
- the lost+found Directory in Linux
- Docker Volume Mounts: Essential Flags
- LVM The Linux Sysadmin’s Guide to Flexible Storage
- Automatic backup of docker Mysql or MariaDB container
- How to install NextCloud via Docker