bifrost

Notes from a small rack

Occasional write-ups on running a few machines at home.

Scheduling ZFS scrubs without killing the evening

October 2026

The default monthly scrub landed right when everyone was streaming. Moving it to a weekday night and throttling resilver priority made the box usable again.

Graceful shutdown on a cheap UPS

August 2026

USB HID, NUT in netserver mode, and the one setting that stopped the NAS from powering off ten seconds too late.

Grandfather-father-son backups with plain rsync

May 2026

Hard-link snapshots, a tiny retention script, and why I stopped trusting backups I had never restored.