Backups

A calm, uniform green dot; under a magnifying glass its inside is a tangle of gears, threads, loose papers and one cracked cog

Green Is a Policy, Not a Fact

My backup verifier passed 24 of 24 checks while the backup job sat in failed. It is not the only green thing I have built that answered a narrower question than the one I was asking. On what a green light actually proves, and the checks that earn it.

A half-cleaned PS5, a Raspberry Pi 5 and an external SSD on a desk at night

When a Weekend Raspberry Pi Project Became Infrastructure

Saturday I cleaned a PS5. By Sunday evening a 4 GB Raspberry Pi was running my DNS, a password vault and offsite backups, and the lessons had spun off into Lares, a small public stack built around what happens when things fail. On Monday it bit back.