How do you upgrade to new versions? How do ship security patches? How do backup?...

import · 2025-10-09T16:50:39 1760028639

Not the OP.

I assume everything running in docker.

For containers: Upgrading new versions can be done headless by watchtower or manually.

For the host: You can run package updates regularly or enable unattended upgrades.

Backups can be easily done with cron + rclone. It is not a magic.

I personally run everything inside docker. Less things to concern.

nicce · 2025-10-09T17:06:51 1760029611

nixOS is great as host. If updates break something, either update does not go through or you just rollback to previous version. And all configuration in a single file.

udev4096 · 2025-10-09T19:19:16 1760037556

I have been trying to move from proxmox + arch VMs to incus + nixos VMs. Really love the idea of functional programs as a config but the upfront cost of getting familiar with it is quite high but seems to be worth it

jimangel2001 · 2025-10-16T17:44:38 1760636678

1. Watchtower

2. ?

3. ZFS duplicated pool with synced r-sync of snapshots on hetzner cloud

4. I don't really care about most of the upgrades because everything is behind a vpn.