I should do some breaking network changes… While tunneled in.
“Yes, while connected to my wireguard server through port 123 here from my Chinese office, I should probably try to upgrade the wireguard server. That’s a great idea!”
Ask me how I know.
I stopped the tailscale service…
… while ssh’d through the tailscale interface.
Luckily, it was my home server and I had to drive there anyway.
When’s the last time you checked if your backup solution works?
But if my backups actually work then I miss out on the joy of rebuilding everything from scratch and explaining to my wife why non of the lights in the house work anymore.
What’s a backup solution…? (I’m only being half sarcastic, I really need to set one up, but it’s not as “fun” as the rest of my homelab, open to suggestions)
No mercy for you, then. ;)
I at least have external backups for important family pics and docs! But yea the homelab itself is severely lacking. If it dies, I get to start from scratch. Been gambling for years that “I’ll get around to a backup solution before it dies”. I wouldn’t bet on me :|
Let’s tinker around and accidentally break something.
and debug it until you have to reinstall your entire stack from scarch
GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!
Have you tried introducing unnecessary complexity?
If you know how your setup works, then that’s a great time for another project that breaks everything.
Infrastructure diagram? No! In this homelab we refer to the infrastructure hyperdodecahedron.
It makes me start looking for the next thing. Got my jellyfin, got my pi hole, my retro console and just recently home assistant set up. (Just a few more buts to add to that). Next i think i am going to look into self hosting a cloud storage solution. Like google drive/photos etc. Would be nice to make my own backups and have them offline
Backups. You’re forgetting them.
Pro tip: If you’re using openwrt or other managed network components don’t forget to automatically back those up too. I almost had to reset my openwrt router and having to reconfigure that from scratch sucks.
