Notes from a small home server that lives on a bookshelf. Backups, noise, sensors and other small domestic engineering.
A 3-2-1 backup that I actually test
Restic to a second disk and to object storage, plus the monthly restore drill that keeps me honest.
Making a shelf server quiet enough to forget
A bookshelf is a terrible place for airflow. What I changed so the box stays under 30 dBA without cooking its disks.
A balcony weather station with two sensors and no cloud
An ESP32, a BME280 and a rain gauge reporting over MQTT to the shelf server. Notes on power, enclosure and bad readings.
Getting ten years of photos off phones and into one place
Deduplicating 61,000 files from four phones and two laptops, fixing timestamps and settling on a folder layout I can live with.