I really feel like swearing, even though I finally got it to work. I started yesterday with a goal as simple as making a backup. I had only been backing up to an internal drive for too long, and I started to worry that I would lose my mind if I had to start everything over again.
First, my goal was of course to back up to an external SSD, but it turned out that it would only work if it was formatted for Linux. So, I booted up a USB with Linux and formatted it to ext4, but I still couldn’t mount it, even though the device could see the drive. At this point, I was getting really frustrated.
Then I decided that a cloud backup is better than nothing. I continued with the rclone add-on, thinking I would just sync to Proton Drive. Well, then I struggled with that too, and when I finally got it working, it REQUIRED my Proton credentials. I was about to explode. At this point, I was thinking I could pay $20 for HA’s own cloud, BUT the price was €75/y?! Who came up with that?
I was so desperate that I would have done anything just to get the backups. So, I managed to get it working with my old friend Google Drive, but it took 4 hours because I had to remove so many restrictions from here and there. Now it’s backing up there and everything is back to normal, but I really hope I don’t have to get the backups from there anytime soon. It really wasn’t very easy to get into an account I probably haven’t used for a year, even with a passkey.