Server

09
Jul
A Picture of multiple rack-mounted servers with hard-drive cages showing in a server rack with lights on indicating hard drives present, and power on

Lesson's Learned the hard (expensive) way

The reason why my backup strategy has changed is that when my primary OS drive failed (it had bad sectors) I had no backup of that data, and I REALLY wanted a good portion of it back. It ended up costing me $1600 and 4 weeks of time to recover that data so I could get things back to normal.
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07
Feb
Upgrading from Traefik 1.7 to Traefik 2.x

Upgrading from Traefik 1.7 to Traefik 2.x

Configuration via docker labels made sense to me, it made the configuration a part of the docker image deployment (in docker-compose) and provided a consistent pattern for doing it going forward.
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