So how’s the whole Linux thing working out then?

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…

Quite some time ago1, I set up my very first home server. Over the years, it’s become more and more central to our day-to-day technical needs, including (but not limited to!) photo backups from all our various devices, syncing files from desktops to the server for archival purposes, documentation management, photo album displays, and most importantly, backing up important files to an off-site location. With all of this activity, I’ve been running more and more nightly jobs.