Recently, I’ve been experimenting with cloud storage solutions I can host myself. Nextcloud, ownCloud, FileCloud, and insertCloudOfTheWeekHere were all solid recommendations from friends, but I wanted something a bit less bloated. Eagle-eyed readers will see that I was using Syncthing for this task. Syncthing is a great option for syncing files between mixed machine types, but it suffers from a quirk in which certain files will be forever stuck in transit. Plus, it requires a web-portal to function effectively and I want something I can call up on the CLI via a cron job or manually as needed without resorting to webapps.
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Recently, my server had a major outage caused partially by my own inexperience as well as some key failures in some key pieces of software I use. But like any good developer, I’m going to place blame upon the OS, specifically apt (not really, but I have to for the bit).
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I must admit something: I have become hopelessly addicted to Syncthing. This tool has saved my bacon the last few weeks with both regular work as well as personal projects, and it has become my go-to tool for backing up large collections of files.
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I think a lot of people involved in the Linux space, both devs and regular users, have a hard time with SELinux. Just last week I was showing some of my personal server’s security to a colleague and I could see the look of sheer “This is above my pay-grade” all over his face.
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I think pretty much everyone has realized at this point that XML is not very easy to parse. With a little documentation and a helpful parsing library it should be, at the very least, managable right?