Improvement Plan for My Personal Website ππ§
Last week, I wrote down a to-do list for my personal website. The next time I have some free time, I can dive right into the tasks instead of slowly remembering what I wanted to achieve.
Yandex.Disk Becomes Paid πΈπΈ
In a previous post, I discussed how I was organizing my personal cloud files stored on Yandex.Disk. Now, the situation has slightly changed. While I still need to organize my files, there's a more urgent matter: deciding where to store all these files. Free synchronization in Yandex.Disk will be disabled at the beginning of next month π«¨.
Setting Up Syncthing π
I decided to learn how to use the Syncthing program. My initial impression was mixed:
- Pros: The program is powerful and free.
- Cons: The program is complex and finicky.
During setup, I had to recreate folders and restart the software approximately ten or twenty times before synchronization worked. For now, I've only set up two folders: Music and Passwords. There are many more folders ahead, but do I need real-time synchronization for each? I think for most of my folders, a weekly backup will suffice.
Improvements to hi-backup π
I've added a new mode to my smart backup program: https://github.com/hinst/hi-backup
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New Unencrypted Backup Option π:
- Format: Each file is placed in a separate .gz archive, while maintaining the folder structure exactly.
Previously, there was only the encrypted mode, with its own format that regular archivers couldn't understand. Now, if needed, files can be extracted without hi-backup.
I'm not sure if continuing to develop this program is worth it. Initially, the idea was to use the smart mode to save NAND resources and only rewrite changed files. However, now I'm questioning its value: It's said that the write resource of such flash drives is quite significant, and with a weekly backup of around 50 GB, the resource would be used so slowly that my flash drive would outlast me π€―πͺ¦
