Post #1833765
2026-04-13 14:31 UTC
@unixorn @blenderfox @homelab My biggest challenge with k8s in a homelab is dealing with flaky hardware. I've had ram go "bad" twice and it corrupted the disk for the control nodes and I lost the "state" of the cluster. I know you can back up k8s configuration, but backups are just so hard and I wish it were really easy 😆 Does Talos make this easier?
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@mydoomfr@mamot.fr 2026-04-13 17:43
@chris @unixorn @blenderfox @homelab I use talos-backup to periodically create encrypted etcd snapshots and upload them to an external S3 bucket. So far, it’s been working great. It’s literally just a CronJob. https://github.com/siderolabs/talos-backup I only have a single controlplane node running on a Raspberry Pi 4. It’s been two years, and I’m still waiting for the SD card to fail so I can test the restore procedure, even though I’ve already validated it. :)