Field Notes

Working notes on running small servers. Written down so the same mistake is only made once.

• Backing up SQLite in WAL mode without stopping writers
  2026-08-17
• Why I moved the last cron jobs to systemd timers
  2026-07-02
• Cheap daily snapshots with rsync and hard links
  2026-05-21
• Microcaching a slow backend with nginx
  2026-03-09
• A short checklist for the disk-full page
  2026-01-26