Modern software development often requires us to juggle multiple services and environments. When you add the constraint of sensitive data or specific hardware requirements, this complexity can grow. Fortunately, tools like VSCode, Docker, and SSH are here to simplify our lives. In this post, we'll walk through setting up a development environment that leverages a virtual machine (VM) remotely, providing both security and flexibility.
I code a lot, and GitHub is where I share my work. But I wanted to take it a step further and feature my projects on my own website, as you can see on my main page. If you're in the same boat and want to showcase your GitHub repositories on your Hugo blog, have a look at this article. We'll explore two straightforward ways to make it happen.
In this article, I'll guide you through creating a Docker-based system for backing up and restoring your `/home/user` directory, storing backups on a mounted HDD, and implementing a 30-day data retention policy. Later, we will discuss how to automate this backup process using `crontab`.
After bolstering the storage capacity of a Linux VM within Proxmox or another hypervisor, you'll discover that the operating system inside the VM doesn't automatically recognize or utilize this newly added space.
Backing up your data regularly is essential, especially for critical applications like Home Assistant running MariaDB in a Docker container. This article will guide you through creating scripts that automate the backup and restoration processes, designed to be flexible by accepting arguments for the password and paths.
