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Hi selfhosting community! At the moment I have my services set up with nix. They store their data on a btrfs subvolume which I can easily snapshot.

For backup I configured btrbk to send the snapshots to a target pc. However I feel uneasy not knowing if the backups succeeded or not. Right now I would need to check manually on the target machine every so often.

How are you guys handling this problem? Custom scripts for btrfs send/receive? Is there a function in btrbk I overlooked where I can verify the state and get notified of problems?

I was looking into ntfy-sh, which looks optimal, but how can I know if the send/receive was successful?

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[–] chrash0@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

ok i’m not saying do this

i recently setup an API proxy, C&C server, Grafana and Prometheus, and Discord bot. now i can send pings via Grafana or with a simple request (provided it’s authed via VPN or proxy) and have my Discord bot use a local LLM on my network to deliver the alert to a Discord channel in the voice of Ultron.