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Forwarding SMS to my Self-Hosted Server

While automating my life, I often came across situations where I need for "forward" SMS messages from my phone to my server. This often came up when attempting to automate workflows that require me to log in using two-factor authentication. Being uncomfortable with turning off 2FA just for

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Self-Hosting

Backing up and Curating a Photo Collection from Multiple Devices Using PhotoPrism

When de-Googling, one of the biggest challenges in terms of services to replace is management of your digital photo library. Not only is it critical to back up a photo library in the event that something happens to your device, having a photo repository hosted in the cloud allows you

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Self-Hosting

Syncing Files from an Android Device to a Nextcloud Server

OK, so you've got a Nextcloud server set up, ready to back up and store all of your files. Now what? There's a lot of reasons you'd want to sync files from your Android device to your Nextcloud server: backing up photos/screenshots, storing

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Creating a Backup Pipeline for a Self-Hosted Server

One struggle that self-hosted server owners will inevitably come across is how to manage backups in a semi-automated and easily maintainable way. The guide will show you how to use Cronicle and restic to create automated backups of the data on your self-hosted server in a remote location using Rclone.

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Configuring a Remote Backup Solution Using restic and Rclone

One of the biggest downsides (by far) with self-hosting content on a server is redundancy, or having multiple copies of your data located on multiple machines (preferably in separate physical locations). The guide will show you how to configure restic and Rclone with an external data store to create backups

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Scheduling Maintenance Tasks Using Cronicle in Docker

Being able to manage a server remotely is a great thing to strive for, as it allows you to check in or troubleshoot things from anywhere in case something goes wrong. Even though it certainly is possible to schedule and manage maintenance tasks (such as automated backups) using Linux'

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