Paul Merceur

how i do backups

important data lives on the devices that use it first: my phone and laptop. selected folders sync to the NAS with Syncthing so they are easy to access elsewhere, and my personal laptop also backs up to it through Time Machine.

the NAS itself is backed up to Google Drive. that works well for now because it is a student account with a lot of discounted storage, but the discount will expire soon, so I will need to rethink that part of the setup.

there is no RAID or other storage redundancy yet. storage is expensive right now, so the setup is focused on backups rather than high availability. redundancy is still something I am considering as the system grows.

why this site uses no fancy framework

part of it is i want to learn. i dont want to use a tool unless i understand why it's useful, which usually requires trying to do a thing from scratch first.

i also want to reduce bloat, and add a feature/tool/library only if it necessary. the easiest way to tell if something is necessary is to try to do it without that thing first.