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Monitoring Raspberry Pis with Home Assistant – get ahead of any failure with this simple setup

A smart home server is the heart of your setup. It needs to be running well to power everything else. Monitoring Raspberry Pis, my favorite low power server, is easy to set up and helps you to detect errors early on. This is how you can easily set up monitoring Read more…

By Oliver, 3 weeks15.11.2021 ago

Software

Avoiding absolute desaster – automatic backup check for ZFS

Having backups of your servers data is essential. But what if somethings goes wrong with the backup process? An automated backup check can be an incredibly important tool. I wrote a small script to check for new backups on my ZFS based server and notify me if any are missing. Read more…

By Oliver, 2 months17.10.2021 ago