Tag: backups

All the articles with the tag "backups".

• How to Back Up Google Takeout to TrueNAS

  4 Aug, 2026

  how-to

  Keep a local copy of your Google data: one TrueNAS Cloud Sync task and a short script that unpacks and prunes each Takeout export.

• How I'd Recover a Box I Can't Reach

  28 Jul, 2026

  practice

  The data was never the hard part. Recovering a Linux box I run from another continent is a plan I've never dared to run, and the risk lives in one configuration file.

• How I Back Up

  2 Jun, 2026

  practice

  How a TrueNAS, a Home Assistant box, and a Chromebook back themselves up—delegated to Cloud Sync, Nabu Casa, and a Google account.

• Using rdiff-backup: Backup Remote Clients With Ease

  3 Feb, 2011

  how-to

  A cron-driven rdiff-backup recipe that pushes incremental backups over SSH from a NAT'd client to a remote server, wrapping the SSH call through --remote-schema.