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There are existing services like pingdom or uptimerobot to check if your network services are up and running. But as always I like to be independent of service providers and host as much by myself as possible. So let’s build our own uptime monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, alertmanager and the Prometheus blackbox-exporter. The general idea is to check if a service is up with the blackbox-exporter. Then scrape this metrics with Prometheus and store it for further usage....

This is a short guide (and reminder for myself) how to add a Samba share as target for macOS Time Machine. I found some blog posts about how to do this, but most of the time the author created a new disk on the share 1 2. This seems like a rather unusual complicated setup to do backups and there are products like the Apple Time Capsule, that works via network discovery....

I am a big fan of the backup tool borgbackup. Borg is space efficient as it supports compression and deduplication and is also secure, so you don’t have to trust the storage provider where your backup will be stored. In this short guide we will setup automatic backups for a server. But most of it can also be used to backup your clients. An addition to borg I use the wrapper borgmatic which will remove any custom scripts needed around borg....