#storage-and-backup
6 posts
2026 - October
1 post2026 - July
2 posts2026 - May
1 post2025 - August
1 post2025 - April
1 post2026 - October
1 postDisaster on My NAS! How I Almost Lost 90 TB of Data
I swapped one drive in my Synology DS1821+ and woke up the next day with two critical drives in an array that only survives losing one. This is the post-mortem, still in progress: why SHR-1 wasn't enough, the warning DSM never sent, the R$ 185 thousand for a QNAP bought in a hurry in Brazil against about US$ 11.5 thousand in the US, the new RAID-6 setup on ZFS, and copying 90 TB at 400 MB/s.
2026 - July
2 postsRemoving DRM from Kindle Ebooks in 2026
I used Calibre, DeDRM 10.0.28, KFX Input, and the Microsoft Store Kindle app in an Omarchy VM to archive 106 books and validate an EPUB conversion workflow I control.
How Do I Protect Myself From My Agents Deleting My Stuff?
LLMs deleting files from famous people made headlines this week. In five months of heavy use, in YOLO mode, it never happened to me. But I don't trust them either: BTRFS snapshots, restic backups, sandboxing and discipline.
2026 - May
1 postBacking Up Gmail to Maildir on Linux
I replaced manual Thunderbird backups with mbsync in pull mode, Maildir, and a systemd timer. Restic replicates the archive to NAS and off-site storage, keeping emails local, open, and accessible to multiple clients.
2025 - August
1 postInstalling Omarchy 2.0 from Scratch - Personal Notes
My personal notes walking through a clean install of Arch Linux with Omarchy 2.0, covering BTRFS, Timeshift snapshots, separate HOME, NFS, and Hyprland customization.
2025 - April
1 postAccessing Your NAS Using iSCSI Instead of SMB
Why I moved my Docker data-root off NFS and onto an iSCSI virtual drive served from my Synology NAS, and how block-level storage crushes file-based protocols for high-churn workloads.