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Seven Machines, One Command

This weekend I was away from my homelab for two days. All I left behind was one Windows machine that could reach the lab's management network, which gave me the Proxmox web GUI and a console. No physical access, no keyboard on any server.

Backups You Can Actually Restore

Everyone agrees backups matter. Almost nobody tests them. The uncomfortable truth of that gap: an untested backup is not a backup, it is a hope with a filename.