Second this.

And I’ll add DietPi is great, easy to run wherever you want. I run it in its own VM on my ESXi box.

I’d figure out why RDP stopped working. Sounds like something changed.

Anything else could be stymied by the same things that blocked RDP - firewall change, etc.

I’ve used other tools since before RDP even existed as Citrix Remote Desktop in the 90’s… Frankly for LAN only there’s little reason to consider anything else with Windows boxes unless you want remote management features like services, shares, etc. Even then I often just use RDP because it just works.

Edit: ah, I had it backwards, your server is Linux and your laptop is Windows.

I’d use VNC, or just ssh for most stuff.

Ira not as good as the original, but again, you can’t tell the difference on a 65" TV, especially with old TV shows that are 4:3

There’s so many ways to skin this cat, you may want to start with identifying the most crucial single failure point that concerns you.

Is it the router? Best you can really do is have good hardware and make sure it and your modem are on a UPS.

If it’s an ISP-provided modem, some enable remote management via a phone app, which can be done from anywhere by signing in to your ISP account.

This is merely ROI, it doesn’t capture things like watching what you want.

I started from needing a server for mobile devices to sync to, music, general file storage, and some virtual machines for testing stuff.

That put me at about 1TB. I already had a bunch of DVDs that I wanted to watch more conveniently, so I just upped the storage and started converting my own stuff.

So my setup isn’t just for media/replacing subscriptions - that a knock on effect.

Still this is a nice calculator for me to better visualize what things actually cost.

Well it’s a pretty good start (and I do agree with you on using the appropriate terminology). I’ve had to look at it differently and use it with the ideas in my head being misrepresented on screen. Still the idea is great.

Sounds like you’d be a great co-conspirator for OP to really make this project exceptional.

You can choose language top right

Curious, have you tested rebuilding using this approach?

It makes sense to me, if the compose files are up-to-date, it should just work.

I’d only be concerned about ensuring I capture changes made to the container that happened after initial build.

The company owns legal liability for anything you so on their hardware.

The end.

This is what I was trying to find for op. Well done!

There’s a project on github just for this, I forget what it’s called.

Basically they’ve developed a mechanism for providing instructions and access to security (usernames, passwords, etc).

I hear BitTorrent with that name

Very carefully.

I suggest a fully-enclosed space with near-normal earth pressures and air mix. Makes for faster adjustment and less likely to get winded.

I’d have multiple spaces connected to a central space, all with plenty of views to the outside (with appropriate solar blocking in the “glass”).

In the main area I’d have a well stocked bar, with moon/solar system themed drinks. Make it an open bar, anyone who can afford to get there has already paid.

Basically, not much different than hosting on earth, just needs to have a softer floor and walls as people experiment with reduced gravity.

Yep.

I run Tailscale on every device that can run it, and have a TS router in one device at home for devices that can’t run it.

Its my fallback if Syncthing ever has a Discovery server failure.

It’s a fantastic app, but doesn’t do sync like SyncThing or Resilio Sync.

It can do things similarly if you work at configuring it, but it can never monitor a remote and sync based on file changes there. That’s not a criticism, it’s a function of the file system approach it takes - it can sync with many different file systems, but it doesn’t have a client at the other end - it simply interfaces with that file system. Fantastic actually.

I’ve used it since about 2010, it was my solution for moving files back and forth for a long time. I still use it for specific things, but I’ve put more effort into ST and Resilio Sync config and management because they’re full-on sync suites.

Instant sync only works for local folders it can monitor. Since it doesnt have a client on the other end, there’s no way to make this happen (it would have to monitor the destination).

This would require keeping a connection open between devices, which is a high cost from a network (and especially battery) perspective.

Its a great app, I’ve used it for 10+ years, paid for it 2 or 3 times because it’s worth it.

I’ve been using Fork for years. Möbius on iOS has financial support from a 3rd party that uses Syncthing in their own processes, so I suspect it will stay around.

That said, Resilio Sync is the other most-viable option I know (and use).

It’s a little less kind to battery with larger folder pairs, and uses more memory since it stores the index in RAM. But it’s robust.

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Nothng official, sorry, wish I did!

Mostly personal experience. But that experience is also shared among a group of peers and friends in the SMB space where their clients think they can keep stuff on externals in an office safe only to find they’ve gone tits up nearly every time they pull them out a couple years later. And not the enclosures, the drives themselves - they all have external drive readers for just these kinds of circumstances.

In the enterprise you’d get laughed out of a datacenter for even suggesting cold drives for anything. Of course that’s based around simple bit rot concerns, and why file systems like ZFS use a methodology to test/verify bits on a regular basis.

If nothing else, that bit rot should be enough of a reason to not store data on cold drives. It’s not what drives were designed (or tested) to do.

Edit: Everything I’ve read over the years suggests failures happen as much from things like lubricants hardening from sitting as from bit rot. I’ve experienced both. I’ve seen drives that spin up after ten years but have numerous data errors, and drives that just won’t spin up, while their counterparts that have run nearly continuously are fine (well, their bit-rot was caught by the OS and mitigated). With a running drive you have monitoring, so you know the state.

Meh, you got a spare kidney…