I was re-wiring a room the other day
and shut off the power. Before
flipping the breaker switch, I powered
down the raspberry pi zero w that
hosts my personal gopher hole. I've
lost enough MicroSD cards that I never
take any chances. I didn't power down
my ancient single-drive Synology
backup server though. It's never been
a problem.
Of course, this time, it was a
problem. It wouldn't reboot after I
turned the power back on. Fortunately,
the corruption was only on the OS
partition, so I reinstalled and all
the data was still there.
Synology has all kinds of software for
file syncing and what-not, but I just
use rsync for backups and ftp for
access to files on the server.
OMG the simple old UNIX tools are the
greatest! It had been a while since I
did a backup, so I did one and despite
the crash, reinstalling the software,
and all that, everything went off
without a hitch, as if nothing had
happened. I'm sure I'm preaching to
the choir here, and that this is
really obvious stuff, but we really
don't need all this cloudy-droppy-
proprietary badness!
Rsync.
FTP.
FTW!
[Image of Visiblink with fist in the
air, a la John Bender after detention
on a Saturday afternoon]
