Notes on running a handful of small servers: backups, SSH, shells, and the occasional thing that broke. Written mostly so that I can find them again.
- New server, same notes
The site moved to another machine. A short list of what I checked afterwards.
- restic on a small VPS, with one cron line
One repository, a retention policy I can explain, and a restore test that runs on its own.
- Five ~/.ssh/config patterns I keep reusing
Aliases, jump hosts, one key per host, keepalives and connection sharing.
- The scrub that found nothing
Why a monthly ZFS scrub is worth it even when the report is empty.
- tmux sessions that survive a reboot
No plugins: a five-line script and a systemd user unit.