#backups

Turn Your Secrets Into Reproducible Artifacts: age + chezmoi Across Your Machines You can’t commit secrets to git — so they sit in plaintext, one copy each, backed up nowhere, and a dead disk takes them with it. I made the case for why that’s the real problem already; this post is… age · backups · chezmoi · devops · secrets · security · self-hosting · ubuntu

Unspilled Is Not Backed Up Every system collects secrets the way a coat pocket collects lint. A token here. A password there. A key minted in a hurry and pasted into a config file you’ll never think about again — until the mach… backups · infrastructure · secrets · security · self-hosting

A Free, Off-Host Backup for Your SQLite App Copying a live SQLite file with `cp` can hand you a torn, useless backup — the data you need is still in the write-ahead log. `VACUUM INTO` takes a consistent snapshot with the server running, and a systemd timer ships it to another box so a dead disk doesn't take your data with it. backups · devops · self-hosting · sqlite · sysadmin