Just to be pedantic: mb would be millibits, or thousandths of a bit. MB is its big brother megabytes.

Fun fact: a kb is a thousand thousand times bigger than a mb!

Some backup methods – like VM backups on a basic Proxmox VE – only support full backups, so they put a lot of stress on the system and take a lot of space. Even if the performance hit or service disruption during the backup is manageable, a homelabber has finite disk space for backups, so there’s a tradeoff between RPO (most recent backup) and retention (oldest backup). Keeping 2 weeks of backups is cheap for weekly, expensive daily.

Ideally, everything would be backed up incrementally at fairly short intervals (short RPO, long retention), and restorable very quickly (short RTO). Getting there is a journey and weekly automatic backups is a great step.

But maybe losing a week of data is fine in their case. There are parts of my lab that would even be fine with monthly backups…

Counterpoint: this comment is shit, and some wacko professor attacking bots on street corners caused it.

You mean they do hitl? They have hitled? They are hitlers?

I heard hitling is bad.

Even if the password box accepts the full string, some sites truncate it in the backend. A good test for this is to try logging in with your full password except for the last character. If that works, keep deleting characters until you can’t log in anymore, and then you’ll know how many characters it really supports.

Hopefully nobody still does this, though with the rise of vibecoding, who knows…