Alexander Wester
pirat.dev
Alexander Wester
@pirat.dev
Game Engine Programmer @fatshark.se
MSc in game and software engineering. 🎓

Home lab, home automation, 3D printing and drones!
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Here's a guide to my Unraid plugin that aims to make backups between unraid machines easy to maintain and secure!

forums.unraid.net/topic/186256...
[BETA] ZFS BuddyBackup plugin guide
ZFS BuddyBackup is a plugin that aims to make ZFS snapshot backups between two Unraid servers easier to maintain and also more secure. Disclaimer: The plugin is in beta and if you download it now you ...
forums.unraid.net
I need an AI to yell at me when I sit like a shrimp 🍤
July 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I've been storing all my games on my server and streaming the data over the network via smb/vhd. Decided to try out isci now!
March 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This is a really great take on the issues with social media algorithms, and important since social media is shaping the new generation.
February 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Working on a dashboard panel for backup good-to-knows at a glance
February 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
My plugin is now available in Unraid Community Applications!
February 13, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Here's a guide to my Unraid plugin that aims to make backups between unraid machines easy to maintain and secure!

forums.unraid.net/topic/186256...
[BETA] ZFS BuddyBackup plugin guide
ZFS BuddyBackup is a plugin that aims to make ZFS snapshot backups between two Unraid servers easier to maintain and also more secure. Disclaimer: The plugin is in beta and if you download it now you ...
forums.unraid.net
February 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
My zfs backup plugin for unraid is coming along nicely! You can set up auto offsite backups to a budy on chosen schedule, and soon snapshot restore functionality works as well.
Encryption and safe permissions are enforced and you don't have to think about it 😎
January 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I am generally against using LLMs for coding, but today it was very useful in converting a short script to a language that I am not super familiar with and has no intention of learning. I did of course review the generated code, and had to correct minor things, but overall it definetly saved me time
January 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Hey @unraid.net, I'm developing a plugin and want to test it on fresh unraid vm installs. What's the recommended way to do this without having to buy more licenses just for testing?
January 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Making safe offsite backups of your data has always been a pain to setup and maintain. Using zfs and tailscale has opened up new possibilities in this space. Something just need to glues the pieces together into a user friendly gui..
January 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This would happen in every game engine team without producers or managers 😆
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xvz...
Games that go too far with their graphics
YouTube video by Viva La Dirt League
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2024 at 5:49 PM
I'm currently really liking the ZFS file system! Did a backup of 12 different revisions of a 268GiB dataset. On the destination disk, all of this data only takes up 157GiB thanks to dataset compression! 🤯
December 12, 2024 at 7:44 AM
Unraid makes managing a home server super easy, but the best part about it is that it doesn't limit you from doing things manually when it's needed
December 10, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Even spinning rust technology has come a long way since I last bought one 😲 I was happy when my old drives reached 100MB/s seq reads
December 7, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Grabbed some large HDDs during black Friday to replace my 15+ year old 500gb drives that I still run in my homelab server. Have had 0 issues with those old ones, but their capacity was starting to limit me
December 7, 2024 at 10:21 AM