The week in homelab, in one Sunday email

What lands in your inbox each Sunday

• New articles. Every post from the past week on Proxmox, OPNsense, Home Assistant, backups and self-hosting, with a one-line summary so you can skip what you don't need.
• New videos. The week's YouTube videos and Shorts from the channel, once they're public.
• The new podcast episode. The Homelab the Right Way Podcast publishes on Sundays, and the issue links the episode and its show notes.
• One tip from the books. A single, concrete check you can do in a few minutes, with the chapter it comes from.

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A tip like the ones you'll get

Set ONE Proxmox backup job to “All guests” with excludes, instead of a hand-picked list. A new VM added last week is already covered; a list you have to remember to edit is how new guests silently go unbacked.

From Homelab the Right Way, ch. 1 checklist: backups

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