Well erm that I can’t get around… but I guess it depends on what you want to self host. I use truenas as a storage solution, standalone and it works very well for that - I have had it up and running for years and years. It also stores personal files and is not exposed to the internet apart from updates and a few other things. Then I have an old 4-node server from Supermicro which hosts the stuff I need and uses truenas to store the data. Now that is probably overkill but the data is safe and backed up well. Truenas has apps for a lot of things, and other ways to host docker containers if you have the latest scale community edition. So perhaps you could do it that way
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thelemonalex@lemmy.world 1 day agoOkay, no VM, understood, but I do want to use a GUI for ZFS, because I’m basically a noob.
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 day ago
thelemonalex@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah, but I don’t have two separate machines, that’s why I’m using Proxmox. And I used TrueNAS previously, with TrueCharts, and I wasn’t happy. It was pretty unstable and finnicky for me, and hard to go back to, after running docker in a clean Debian VM, which has been rocksolid so far. Still, thanks for your suggestion
Lem453@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
One thing to consider is that once zfs is setup there really is no significant intervention that is needed. I probably haven’t done anything to my proxmox zfs array in years.
I know its almost a meme to say just learn command line, but unfortunately in this case it will really help you understand what is happening and it also just takes a few commands to setup up once and then never worry about it again.
After the inital setup, the zfs GUI will be pretty much unused.
For commands I don’t use often, i use a note taking software to keep track of commands I used during setup because years go by before I use it again. I find the GUI often changes in that time making it harder to replicate whereas command line is the same and easier to document.
thelemonalex@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah, you’re totally right. Okay thanks, will do