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Backups you can restore and object storage without surprise bills: restic, rclone, Cloudflare R2, S3 and MinIO.
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If your backup script suddenly shows a "Deprecated program name" warning, you're probably running MariaDB, not MySQL. Here's why mysqldump is being re…
Cloudflare had a rough run of outages touching R2 in late 2025 and again in 2026. If your backups live only on R2, I think it is worth asking what hap…
Your mysqldump command works when you type it yourself but fails from cron with "Access denied... using password: NO"? Here's the actual cause (it's n…
Automate MySQL/MariaDB backups to Cloudflare R2 with rclone and a cron or systemd timer — and, unlike most guides, actually verify the backup restores…
A step-by-step guide to offloading your WordPress media library to Cloudflare R2 — bucket setup, custom domain, S3 API credentials, and two ways to co…
