[kwlug-disc] Documenting your digital life

[CrankyOldBugger]

I originally had all my tips and tricks stored in my Synology NAS's Notes
app.  Had accumulated many notes over the years.  But lately the app has
been unreliable, so I uploaded everything, one note at a time, to my
personal website.  However, my access to this website has been shaky
lately, so I installed NextCloud on a handy Raspberry Pi 5 and started
downloading/uploading everything from the website to NextCloud's Notes app.

But, being someone who is still learning NextCloud, I've bahookee'd my
Notes a couple of times now.  So I have stuff stored all over the place.

A decent wiki would be nice.  I could find another Raspberry Pi around here
that's looking bored and host it there.  What do you recommend for a
self-hosted wiki?



On Tue, 20 May 2025 at 19:38, John Van Ostrand <john at vanostrand.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM Chris Frey <cdfrey at foursquare.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 02:02:04PM -0400, John Van Ostrand wrote:
>> > Do you keep detailed notes of household information? If so, what do you
>> use?
>>
>> I use mediawiki for my wiki documentation.  But since I store that
>> in the cloud, and since it is more complex to get going than a simple
>> document in cases of disaster recovery, I don't store super-private
>> information in there.
>>
>
> I prefer to use the cloud for as little as possible. One reason I used a
> VPS for VPN services was that it replaces a dynamic DNS charge and keeps me
> from having to buy cloud storage for files I want access to remotely and
> allows me to use ISPs that put me behind a NAT. Although I haven't saved
> anything yet, the next ISP change will save me money.
>
> As you know we used TWiki at Net Direct, and I kept that at home for a
> while. It was way too slow on earlier Raspis, so I switched to Dokuwiki.
>
> I've had to recover the wiki server using documents in the wiki.
> Fortunately the data is stored as .txt files under
> /var/lib/dokuwiki/data/pages so it's pretty easy to read a backup.
>
> I back it up with rsync and a mysqldump that gets flattened into a git
>> repo,
>> just in case I need to go back in time due to some externally caused
>> loss of wiki-history.
>>
>
> I've been using rsnapshot for backups. It backs up to a filesystem using
> rsync and ssh. I can easily add new systems, I can easily change the
> rotation and generations. And best yet, It stores the backup as a
> subdirectory so I can easily browse for files without needing to remember
> recovery tools. It uses hard links for duplicate files. It's not smart
> enough to store only diff files, or to merge identical files from different
> sources, but given my use it's not a big deal.  I also don't backup the
> entire system, /etc/, /home (less Downloads and cache), and /usr/local, as
> well as application specific data like database files, web files, etc.
>
> --
> John Van Ostrand
> At large on sabbatical
>
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