You just finished setting up all your services and it works fine - how do you now prepare for eventual drive failure? - eviltoast

I know that for data storage the best bet is a NAS and RAID1 or something in that vein, but what about all the docker containers you are running, carefully configured services on your rpi, installed *arr services on your PC, etc.?

Do you have a simple way to automate backups and re-installs of these as well or are you just resigned to having to eventually reconfigure them all when the SD card fails, your OS needs a reinstall or the disk dies?

  • rentar42@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I just use Ansible to prepare the OS, set up a dedicated user, install/setup Rootless Docker and then Sync all the docker compose files from the same repo to the appropriate server and launch/update as necessary. I also use it to centrally administer any cron jobs like for backup.

    Basically if I didn’t forget anything (which is always possible) I should be able to pick a brand new RPi with an SSD and replace one of mine with a single command.