Homelab Hero · No. 002

One incident. Three calls.

Sunday, 6:12 PM. Your backup job to the offsite box has failed three nights running: “target unreachable.” The offsite box pings fine, its dashboard loads, and the array there shows green. The only change this week: you re-did the firewall rules on Friday.

Your call:

A. Roll back Friday's firewall changes wholesale and re-run the backup

B. Check the firewall logs for drops on the backup port, fix the one rule, re-run

C. Wipe the offsite target and re-seed the backup from scratch

100 Hero Points for the right call — 200 on the Friday Boss Fight. From Issue No. 002 of The Homelab Herald. Your result lands on the next page, ready to share.