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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Effective-Ad8776 on 2024-06-15 18:01:48+00:00.

I’ll be going away for a couple of months and will need access to my server at home (running Linux Mint) for streaming stuff and a few other things.

I am trying to figure out a way to make sure if anything goes wrong I’ll have access to the server and can troubleshoot.

Not looking for fail safe solutions, but just some ideas on what to implement.

I’ve a smart plug which I can use to hard reboot the server, given my WiFi at home does go down.

I set up VPS, through which I can SSH to the home server (since at home I’ve dynamic IP). The 2 are connected using Wireguard.

WebUI of services running in docker is accessible via CF tunnel, so I can manage services from anywhere.

I will be implementing hard change freeze at least a week before the departure, due to my talent of screwing things up, but I have daily snapshots of the server and working state snapshot of the VPS anyway so could restore fairly quickly. Give I still manage to SSH into the server.

One scenario I just came across when testing hard reboot using the smart plug, when the server came back up, networking was gone, just didn’t show any network adapter. It came back up after a reboot, but it got me thinking, do you run any scripts that check status of networking and if it’s down do a restart of all network services? Any idea on Debian what that would look like?

Looking forward to hearing what mad fail safes everyone has in place!