WARNING: I’ve had some major issues running Alpine Linux on my Raspberry PIs. Most incidents happen due to update process of diskless “Alpine Linux” and having only 4GB of memory. switched to Raspberry PI OS aka Debian. I’m done with Alpine Linux as regular operating system.
Some time ago, I started to set up the “Network UPS Tools” (NUT) for my uninterruptible power supply (UPS) “Eaton 3S”. It’s a UPS which can be connected to a computer via USB cable.
I bought an “Eaton 3S” uninterruptible power supply (UPS) some time ago. It is supposed to support my servers with power in case of a power loss. I also wanted to get notified about those “power down” events, so I looked for an open-source software to monitor the UPS hardware. I found the “Network UPS Tools” (NUT). In this article, I describe some of the pitfalls I came across.
WARNING: I’ve had some major issues running Alpine Linux on my servers. Most incidents happen due to changes in the kernel and broken file systems. I switched to Debian. I’m done with Alpine Linux as regular operating system.
This blog post dives into setting up the Open Source “S3” compatible object storage server “MinIO” as backend for “restic” backups. The main focus of this setup is to have a stable storage backend with nearly zero maintenance – ok more or less zero maintenance.
