Homelab Hero · No. 015

One incident. Three calls.

Saturday morning. It is drive-swap day on your NAS, and you do the right thing first: a test restore of the photo-library VM from last night's backup. It fails. The backup job has reported success 41 nights straight — and the array rebuild you were about to start would have leaned on those backups.

Your call:

A. Call off the swap, test-restore the older generations and the offsite copy, and fix the backup chain before touching the array

B. Swap the drive, but keep the pulled drive untouched on the shelf as your fallback while you sort the backups out

C. Re-run the backup job, watch it report success, and start the rebuild

100 Hero Points for the right call — 200 on the Friday Boss Fight. From Issue No. 015 of The Homelab Herald. Your result lands on the next page, ready to share.