Sometimes you just start doing something with good intentions, thinking it will take you a few minutes… and finish a couple of days later, rethinking how many things went wrong and how much time of your life you spent doing a really unnecessary thing. Well, that could be a sum of my last unnecessary IT adventure: swapping the boot device of my Raspberry from microSD to a USB-attached disk. All Wrong From The Beginning Last week, I got an email from Google: my 100 GB storage subscription was expiring. Since I’m trying to deGoogle for a few years, in 2025 I installed Immich on my homemade tiny server and started backing up my memories there. I’m quite happy with it: it works almost flawlessly and is stable. I finally felt ready to leave Google Photos, which undoubtedly works very well. I pondered how to make the server even more robust, since it’s not a VM and it would be neither easy nor immediate to restore in case of failure. First, I found raspiBackup to create quick and…
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