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Cake day: March 19th, 2024

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  • My pihole exploded yesterday, all my fault. A couple of years ago, I created a script called via cron to update pihole’s services every other week. This was great, until now when it updated to v6 at 4am. To make matters worse, I neglected to automate raspian updates, meaning it was very out of date, and was no longer compatible with pihole-FTL (thinking back, I thought I automated it too, but I guess not).

    I took an image after creating a pihole “teleporter” backup, and began formatting. In my lack of caffeine and focus, I missed that my teleporter file was corrupt after I had successfully wiped the SD card. Thankfully I had that image as I was able to mount it and retrieve my blocklists via sqlite, otherwise I would have had to start from scratch.

    One good thing that came out of it (for my taste, anyway) was that I swapped the OS on the pi to fedora. No more debian around here!

    Tomorrow, I plan on setting up some backup automation for my pi, as it’s the only machine missing backups at this point.