Quick summary, TLDR; The Community Forums, also coined as our Community Plaza, are scheduled for archiving. We will be signaling a close to the Forums as of Wednesday, March 3, 2021. A little history The QuickBox Community Plaza was first launched in early May of 2016. The Plaza acted as a means for community gathering, support, information in regards to releases, feature requesting, and so much more! They were the dynamic presence behind what was at the time a static website for the QuickBox Community Edition.During the time of launch till now they served a great purpose and offered a wealth of information to those looking for answers on various software as well as general Linux tips and tricks and
With the upcoming QuickBox v3 release we’ve decided to provide weekly updates on its current development status. These will be slightly technical as opposed to our normal announcements. Our current release of QuickBox is packed full of features and as a result, it’s not as streamlined as we’d like it to be. This is primarily due to: Our current choice in database Lack of optimization Our file structure We’re pleased to announce however that these are being addressed in the next iteration of QuickBox! The Goal With v3 we’ll be shifting our database over to SQLite. We’ve spent a lot of time going through our use case, what datatypes we use and how scalable our database needs to be…and to
QuickBox has dedicated staff, and Tom is one of those staff members to whom you can rely on. We’ve decided that today we’ll give him the day off but only because it’s his birthday today. Random fact for you, Tom’s legal name is his username! So on his passport it says tomcdj71 🇫🇷. 😉 So please share in the celebrations and wish him a very Happy Birthday! You can do so on our Discord channel today!
Quick summary, TLDR; The Community Forums, also coined as our Community Plaza, are scheduled for archiving. We will be signaling a close to the Forums as of Wednesday, March 3, 2021. A little history The QuickBox Community Plaza was first launched in early May of 2016. The Plaza acted as a means for community gathering, support, information in regards to releases, feature requesting, and so much more! They were the dynamic presence behind what was at the time a static website for the QuickBox Community Edition.During the time of launch till now they served a great purpose and offered a wealth of information to those looking for answers on various software as well as general Linux tips and tricks and
With the upcoming QuickBox v3 release we’ve decided to provide weekly updates on its current development status. These will be slightly technical as opposed to our normal announcements. Our current release of QuickBox is packed full of features and as a result, it’s not as streamlined as we’d like it to be. This is primarily due to: Our current choice in database Lack of optimization Our file structure We’re pleased to announce however that these are being addressed in the next iteration of QuickBox! The Goal With v3 we’ll be shifting our database over to SQLite. We’ve spent a lot of time going through our use case, what datatypes we use and how scalable our database needs to be…and to
QuickBox has dedicated staff, and Tom is one of those staff members to whom you can rely on. We’ve decided that today we’ll give him the day off but only because it’s his birthday today. Random fact for you, Tom’s legal name is his username! So on his passport it says tomcdj71 🇫🇷. 😉 So please share in the celebrations and wish him a very Happy Birthday! You can do so on our Discord channel today!
If you know me, you will know that I love a good backup. I try and backup everything that I do to more than 1 service. For my iPhone, I backup to my computer and to iCloud and for my QuickBox server, I backup my important directories to Google Drive.
I had to learn this lesson the hard way when I managed to break my server so badly that it had to be rebuilt. I had lost everything but my Rclone configuration file. This was a massive set up as I had to setup Sonarr, Radarr, Jackett, Deluge, Plex, Ombi and other applications as well because I didn’t have any of the config files anywhere.
So I spent a few days/weeks getting everything back up and running exactly how I like it etc. and then created myself a backup script. It’s fairly simple to be honest and I had some help from a fellow QuickBox user jackalblood (He does support QuickBox and custom work too – totally check out his Discord channel).
So every 6 hours, it goes through and backups copies of all of my applications that I have installed and places them into a backup folder on my Google Drive.
As you can see, I’ve structured my folders for the specific applications I’m backing up. It was a fairly simple script to create and I’m pleased that it backups every 6 hours. (Note: the last modified shows you when the folder itself was last updated not the contents of it).
There are many different backup options out there whether it’s for your whole server or something like I did, to backup config files for specific applications. I cannot tell you how important it is to backup your stuff in the event you ever loose access to your server.
Here are some quick tips for this;
Always have multiple backups in different locations (One locally and one on the cloud is sufficient)
Think about how often your content changes and that’ll help you decide how often to backup
Get some form of notification if your backup fails and for specific reason. You don’t want to be left in a situation where you think your backups are running, and when you need them, you don’t have any to choose.
DON’T IGNORE BACKING UP YOUR DATA – The amount of times I’ve heard the excuse of “Well it’s not my job to backup my server” or “I thought I did one” is unreal. Always have a backup of your most important data
Just because a backup is on some external media (external hard drive, memory stick) doesn’t mean it’s safe. A memory stick can go corrupt, break, get water damage or similar.
Think about how quickly you would need to get back online if something was to go down. This will help inform you where to keep your backups
If you want/need any help with backing up your data, then come speak with our Support Staff on our Discord Channel and we can help you out.
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