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Monitoring Homelab.. The final battle in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

that's the difference between the paid software, where the user-friendliness is the priority, and the open-source software, where the functionality is the priority.

Also check netdata which has an exceptional baseline config, you can instantly use it without any need to fiddle with the settings. Of course it will need some config later if you want to to go fancy, but it is instantly usable.

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Macrium is going subscription-only? (alien.top)
 

Here is the black friday, usually the best time to get Macrium licenses. But this year the sale is really disappointing. https://www.macrium.com/products/home

There is no discount on single license, and only 25% on the 4 machine license. Last year it was 50%. They also introduced a stupid subscription plan, which is discounted to hell to lure people in.

But subscriptions for offline backup is a huge no-no. I won't pay yearly ransom to use my own data on my own drives. It was one of the reasons why I ditched Acronis (and there were other reasons to be honest).

Looks like I have to start the endless search again for a good image backup software.

Does anyone else arrange their data in a way that protects against the inevitability of a windows install failing?? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have daily image backups of the OS drives with a history of 60-90 days.

my Windows is also stable, except when the SSD kills itself upon a sudden power loss...

Teach me your ways... in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

we don't backup. when our HDD goes wrong, we just post on r/DataHoarder

Using 7zip: which format is recommended to use when archiving data, .7z or .zip? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

.rar with 10% recovery record

How to fully format external HD without leaving it running for days? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

use USB 3 dock. USB 2 is slow.

SSD for long term (2-4 years) storage ? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

please ask this every day