#storage-and-backup
7 posts
2026 - October
2 posts2026 - July
2 posts2026 - May
1 post2025 - August
1 post2025 - April
1 post2026 - October
2 postsLinux users: always choose BTRFS, not EXT4
Sequel to the NAS disaster article: filesystem choice is a life-or-death decision for your data. The history of ext4 and btrfs, snapshots, subvolumes, reflink deduplication, corruption protection, compression measured in real GB (630 GB free on 2.2 TB), ZFS vs btrfs on NAS, snapshot boot recovery with Limine and MicroOS, and storage hygiene in the AI coding era: Rust, Docker, model caches, agent worktrees and how to automate cleanup.
Disaster on My NAS! How I Almost Lost 90 TB of Data
I swapped one drive in my Synology DS1821+ and woke up the next day with two critical drives in an array that only survives losing one. Full post-mortem: why SHR-1 wasn't enough, the warning DSM never sent, the R$ 185 thousand for a QNAP bought in a hurry, and the recovery: parallel NAS-to-NAS rsync, the slow drive holding the array back, the verification of 5.9 million files, the thick provisioning scare, and both NASes healthy in RAID-6.
2026 - July
2 postsRemoving DRM from Kindle Ebooks in 2026
I used Calibre, DeDRM 10.0.28, KFX Input, and the Microsoft Store Kindle app in an Omarchy VM to archive 106 books and validate an EPUB conversion workflow I control.
How Do I Protect Myself From My Agents Deleting My Stuff?
LLMs deleting files from famous people made headlines this week. In five months of heavy use, in YOLO mode, it never happened to me. But I don't trust them either: BTRFS snapshots, restic backups, sandboxing and discipline.
2026 - May
1 postBacking Up Gmail to Maildir on Linux
I replaced manual Thunderbird backups with mbsync in pull mode, Maildir, and a systemd timer. Restic replicates the archive to NAS and off-site storage, keeping emails local, open, and accessible to multiple clients.
2025 - August
1 postInstalling Omarchy 2.0 from Scratch - Personal Notes
My personal notes walking through a clean install of Arch Linux with Omarchy 2.0, covering BTRFS, Timeshift snapshots, separate HOME, NFS, and Hyprland customization.
2025 - April
1 postAccessing Your NAS Using iSCSI Instead of SMB
Why I moved my Docker data-root off NFS and onto an iSCSI virtual drive served from my Synology NAS, and how block-level storage crushes file-based protocols for high-churn workloads.