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`restore preflight <loc_idx> <host>` reads every app's manifest out of its
own snapshot (engineDumpFile pulls a single file without restoring) and
checks it against this machine before anything is written:
* an app this version no longer ships is skipped — restoring one
produces a directory that can never start, and looks like success
until someone opens it
* an app that will not fit is skipped individually, because filling the
disk part-way through takes the apps that already landed with it
* a manifest naming a storage location this machine lacks falls back to
the default, and says which app moved where
The installer's restore path runs it and asks once before continuing.
Two bugs found by running it against the live repository rather than
reading it:
The CLI dispatcher calls handlers with NO arguments, so `shift 4; "$@"`
inside one operates on an empty list. `restore first-run bulk` has always
had this — a bulk restore silently received zero apps. Fixed at the entry
point: start.sh now captures LP_CLI_ARGS from "$@", and both call sites
use it.
And the wrapper fills unset argv slots with the literal string "empty"
(${5:-empty} … ${9:-empty}), so a trailing slot arrives as a five-
character app name rather than a blank. Filtering on -n alone let five
phantom apps through and reported each as "no longer shipped". Both call
sites now drop the sentinel. That also caps any explicit list at five, so
preflight discovers the host's apps itself when given none.
Verified against the live repository: 13 apps discovered and checked.
Sizes read "?" there because those snapshots predate manifests carrying
size_bytes — the intended graceful fallback, not a refusal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LibrePortal
Your own private corner of the internet — free, open, and yours.
LibrePortal is a self-hosted platform for running the apps you rely on, on your own server: one-click installs, a reverse proxy with automatic SSL, rootless Docker, optional VPN routing, and a clean web dashboard to manage it all.
⚠️ v0.1.0 — early days. Expect rough edges while things settle.
Why LibrePortal
Too many services today treat your data as theirs to take — quietly overstepping boundaries that should never have been crossed. LibrePortal grew out of frustration with that: it's a way to run the apps you depend on on your own server, where your data stays yours. Privacy here isn't a feature to toggle — it's the whole point.
Free & open — forever
The entire platform is free software under the GNU AGPLv3. Self-host it and you get everything — every feature, no paywalls, no telemetry. See our Promise for exactly what that means.
What you get
- 📦 One-click self-hosted apps (Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Gitea, …)
- 🔀 Traefik reverse proxy + automatic Let's Encrypt SSL
- 🔒 Rootless Docker, CrowdSec, sane security defaults
- 🛡️ Optional VPN routing (gluetun) for any app
- 🖥️ A web dashboard to install, configure, back up, and monitor everything
Quick start
curl -fsSL https://get.libreportal.org/install.sh | sudo bash
This installs a versioned, checksum-verified release (Debian/Ubuntu, root). Put
data on separate disks with --system-dir= / --containers-dir= / --backups-dir=.
The
get.libreportal.orghost is still being set up — until it's live, build a release and install from it locally (see the docs below).
Documentation
- docs/guide/install-and-use.md — install, place data on separate disks/drives, update, back up, uninstall.
- docs/contributing/development.md — run a dev copy, cut stable/edge releases, and test them before publishing.
LibrePortal Connect (optional)
Self-hosting is free and complete. If you'd rather not fiddle with the tricky parts — like reaching your server from your phone, or keeping off-site backups — LibrePortal Connect will handle them for you. Here's the catch that makes us different: we work like a courier carrying a sealed box. We move your data between your devices and store backup copies, but it stays locked and you hold the only key — we can't open it, and we never run your apps for you. Everything we offer, you can also set up yourself for free. Our Promise spells out exactly where that line sits.
Contributing
PRs welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md. We use a lightweight
DCO sign-off (git commit -s), no CLA.
Acknowledgments
LibrePortal has been built from scratch since 2023. Its spark of inspiration
was a small installer script from Brian McGonagill (OpenSourceIsAwesome):
gitlab.com/bmcgonag/docker_installs.
From that seed it grew start to finish — refined, extended, and refactored
into the platform it is today.
License
GNU AGPLv3. What's open stays open.