Reading earlier comments in this community made me consider documenting the workings of my homelab to some extent, ie. docker configuration, credentials, ports and links of my services. I’ve tried to make it consistent and organised but it still feels half baked and insufficient. Everyone suggests documenting everything you do in your homelab but don’t state how. Since I’ve hardly had experience running my own server, I would really appreciate observing the blueprint of some other fellow selfhoster for copying or taking inspiration from rather than considering documentation to be ‘left as an exercise for the reader’.
Edit: I already have a note-taking solution with me. What I wish to ask is to know what needs to be documented and what the structure of the documentation should be to accommodate the information.
(Bookmarked for when I have the mental capacity to …)
Do y’all also document backup/restore procedures?
How often do you test it?
Frankly, with my screwed up brain, I document everything. I can turn around twice in my lab and my brain will flat line. When I first started, I would always tell myself that I’d remember stuff. Not anymore.
I created a script for Linux that automatically backs up to a NAS drive, once every two weeks, as a complete image, and I keep 5 on deck. Testing usually happens once every 3 months or so. I also have Duplicati backups that are stored offsite on my VPS.