43: A New Solution for Backups

Alex has a new trick for local and remote backups, and shares his thoughts on Synology's DS series NAS.

Plus Chris' master plan to save everyone's batteries.

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Links:

• Home Assistant Mac App — Home Assistant Companion is a new application for Mac to control your Home Assistant instance, exposing your Mac sensors to Home Assistant and to receive notifications.
• AlDente — MacOS tool to limit maximum charging percentage
• Free Cron Job Monitoring - Healthchecks.io — We notify you when your nightly backups, weekly reports, cron jobs, and scheduled tasks don't run on time.
• linuxserver/healthchecks - LinuxServer.io — ​Healthchecks is a watchdog for your cron jobs. It's a web server that listens for pings from your cron jobs, plus a web interface.
• docker stats — Display a live stream of container(s) resource usage statistics
• zfs.rent — Simple cloud service to store ZFS snapshots.
• DS1621+ | Synology Inc. — Synology DS1621+ is a powerful and compact 6-bay network attached storage solution designed to store and protect critical data assets.
• NAS Selector | Synology Inc.
• autorestic — Autorestic is a wrapper around the amazing restic.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• Youtube - BlueIris + Deepstack