The backup server at my parents house really did not want to run.
Something kept breaking to the point that no web interface or SSH worked. Now I’m not new to self hosting, so I ran my fair share of HDMI and USB cables across my space to debug something on my server. But at my parents place it’s just that extra bit annoying, since I only bring my laptop. Finding a screen is doable, but the keyboard got me more than once. The only one they have kicking around has a freaking PS/2 cable… not even my salvaged backup hardware is old enough to support that. More than one time I had to wait for friends to get back from work so I could borrow their keyboard just to press ‘any’ key.
I decided to handle the issue by getting an IP KVM, which should help me deal with that, right? Wrong! I installed a new drive and that piece of hardware goes into some secure boot loop or whatever that is too fast for my KVM to turn on…
The backup server at my parents house really did not want to run. Something kept breaking to the point that no web interface or SSH worked. Now I’m not new to self hosting, so I ran my fair share of HDMI and USB cables across my space to debug something on my server. But at my parents place it’s just that extra bit annoying, since I only bring my laptop. Finding a screen is doable, but the keyboard got me more than once. The only one they have kicking around has a freaking PS/2 cable… not even my salvaged backup hardware is old enough to support that. More than one time I had to wait for friends to get back from work so I could borrow their keyboard just to press ‘any’ key.
I decided to handle the issue by getting an IP KVM, which should help me deal with that, right? Wrong! I installed a new drive and that piece of hardware goes into some secure boot loop or whatever that is too fast for my KVM to turn on…