Building a Podcast Backup Appliance
A listener wrote in with a specific ask: a single-purpose appliance that incrementally pulls podcast episodes onto local storage he owns, reachable over Tailscale, reporting on disk health, with no NAS bloat and no general-purpose services. It sounds like a hobbyist napkin sketch — until you notice the enterprise backup industry spent a decade arriving at the same design. We walk through the Just Enough OS pattern, the mature open-source archivers that already do exactly this, and the one thing nobody has actually built: the box that bundles them together. Episode 5522 —…
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