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Overview This project documents the design and implementation of a production-grade backup system for a Linux workstation, replicating critical system directories to a Synology NAS. The objectives were: Fully automated operation Safe execution from both CLI and scheduler No overlapping runs Protection against hung transfers Reliable email reporting Support for machines that are not always powered on All hostnames, IP addresses, and email domains below are intentionally anonymised. Architecture Source: Linux workstation Destination: Synology NAS (SSH, non-standard port) Transport: rsync over SSH (key-based authentication) Scheduler: anacron Reporting: msmtp (sendmail-compatible) ...

Introduction As part of building my self-hosted Hugo publishing workflow, I wanted something simple: Edit content Commit changes Push to Git Deploy automatically I didn’t want to manually SSH into the server every time. So I wrote a small helper script called hillpush. What hillpush Does The script automates the full deployment workflow: Detects the Git repository root Checks for remote updates Rebases cleanly if required Stages and commits changes Pushes to Git Triggers the publish script on the web server In short: ...

This is an outdated summary of my instance. Updates to come… System Health Data point Details version core-2021.3.4 installation_type Home Assistant OS dev false hassio true docker true virtualenv false python_version 3.8.7 os_name Linux os_version 5.4.99 arch x86_64 timezone Pacific/Auckland Home Assistant Community Store Data point Details GitHub API ok Github API Calls Remaining 5000 Installed Version 1.11.3 Stage running Available Repositories 842 Installed Repositories 8 Hass.io Data point Details host_os Home Assistant OS 5.12 update_channel stable supervisor_version supervisor-2021.03.6 docker_version 19.03.13 disk_total 228.5 GB disk_used 13.7 GB healthy true supported true board intel-nuc supervisor_api ok version_api ok installed_addons Visual Studio Code (3.3.0), File editor (5.2.0), Terminal & SSH (9.1.0), Samba share (9.3.1), ESPHome (1.16.2), Node-RED (8.2.1), Folder Rsync (0.0.9) Lovelace Data point Details dashboards 1 resources 3 views 12 mode storage Xiaomi MIoT Data point Details logged_in false added_devices 3