I was re-wiring a room the other day 
and shut off the power. Before 
flipping the breaker switch, I powered 
down the raspberry pi zero w that 
hosts my personal gopher hole. I've 
lost enough MicroSD cards that I never 
take any chances. I didn't power down 
my ancient single-drive Synology 
backup server though. It's never been 
a problem.

Of course, this time, it was a 
problem. It wouldn't reboot after I 
turned the power back on. Fortunately, 
the corruption was only on the OS 
partition, so I reinstalled and all 
the data was still there.

Synology has all kinds of software for 
file syncing and what-not, but I just 
use rsync for backups and ftp for 
access to files on the server.

OMG the simple old UNIX tools are the 
greatest! It had been a while since I 
did a backup, so I did one and despite 
the crash, reinstalling the software, 
and all that, everything went off 
without a hitch, as if nothing had 
happened. I'm sure I'm preaching to 
the choir here, and that this is 
really obvious stuff, but we really 
don't need all this cloudy-droppy- 
proprietary badness!

Rsync. 

FTP.

FTW!

[Image of Visiblink with fist in the 
air, a la John Bender after detention 
on a Saturday afternoon]

[Cue the new wave music]