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Setting Up Obsidian Sync (or Livesync or Remotely Save) with Separate Git Backup

This guide describes how to set up an Obsidian vault that syncs across devices while maintaining a separate Git backup without interfering with the sync mechanism. This guide should work with either official Obsidian Sync solution or with unofficial sync plugins like Obsidian Livesync or Remotely Save.

Prerequisites

Git installed on your system
Obsidian installed
Either Obsidian Sync subscription or LiveSync plugin configured
Basic familiarity with command line

Prerequisites

Enable the multilib repository by editing /etc/pacman.conf

Install WineHQ and some other optional dependencies:

$ pacman -Syu wine
$ pacman -S --asdeps lib32-mpg123 lib32-gnutls {lib32-,}gst-plugins-base-libs \
                     lib32-alsa-plugins lib32-libpulse lib32-openal
$ yay -S lib32-unixodbc # or your favourite AUR helper

We'll install a 64-bit version of iTunes, so no need to set WINEARCH

Copying and Backing up Google Photos to BackBlaze

BackBlaze offers data backup to the cloud for just a few cents per gigabyte. So, when I had almost reached my 100 GB limit on Google Photos (Google One), I decided to tranfer it all to a local 4 TB hard drive and then put a second backup into the cloud for long term storage.

The process was not that easy, so if you have any better advice please let me know. Here is what I did:

Getting the Photos to Local Machine

I had about 65 GB of photos and videos on Google Photos I wanted to download, spanning thousands of files and multiple years. It would take far too long to do it in the browser so I went to Google Takeout in hopes it would be faster.

Cheat Sheets are greate but they are not a substitute for learning the framework and reading the documentation as we most certainly have not covered every potential example here. Please refer to the Rails Command Line Docs for more information.

Command Line Generator Info

Reference

You can get all of this information on the command line.

rails generate with no generator name will output a list of all available generators and some information about global options. rails generate GENERATOR --help will list the options that can be passed to the specified generator.

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	#
	# This script installs the latest open source version of Mail Piler (mailpiler.org) from the master
	# branch on GitHub by compiling it from source. It also installs all dependencies, including a MySQL database.
	#
	# You should run this script as root on a vanilla Ubuntu 24.04 installation.
	#
	#
	set -o errexit

	package main

	// Usage:
	// copy this code to https://replit.com/languages/go
	// and change the encrypted_password variable below (see comments below for steps to acquite the encrypted password)

	import (
	"crypto/aes"
	"crypto/cipher"
	"encoding/base64"