Cyber
@Cyber@feddit.uk
- Comment on [deleted] 6 hours ago:
Thanks 👍🏻
- Comment on [deleted] 16 hours ago:
Ok, asking for a friend, where’s a list of what all these arrs are now, as
I’mthey’re getting confused now. - Comment on XMPP servers / cokmunities? 1 day ago:
To answer your question on where it’s used, have you seen providers.xmpp.net ?
(It might be worth testing your client against a few different servers…)
That’s where I found who to use, until I get to setting up
prosody
at home. - Comment on can we now "safely" auto upgrade immich? 4 days ago:
INHO never auto-upgrade anything.
Leave it a day / week or so, and then manually upgrade.
(And do a backup of application database(s) first.)
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Ahh, ok. Thanks for clarifying.
- Comment on Another update that no one asked for 4 days ago:
Depends on which functions of NC you’re using.
Personally, I found thst no-one used the gallery, calendar or contacts apps in NC, so I replaced it all with radicale and syncthing.
But if you’re using all the collaboration stuff, then you’ll need to look into it a bit more.
For me, NC was way overkill, nightmare to maintain and an extra layer of software (ie vulnerabilities) exposed to the interwebs thst I didn’t need
- Comment on Another update that no one asked for 4 days ago:
I use Vivaldi’s built in calendar as the UI to Radicale.
Just a suggestion
- Comment on Another update that no one asked for 4 days ago:
I replaced NC with Radicale
- Comment on 4 days ago:
One thing I forgot to mention:
rsync
has an option to preserve file timestamps, so if that’s important for your files, then thst might also be useful… without checking, the other commands probably have that feature, but I don’t recall at the moment.rsync -Prvt <source> <destination>
might be something to try, leave for a minute, stop and retry … that’ll prove it’s all working.Oh… and make sure you get the source and destination paths correct with a trailing
/
(or not), otherwise you’ll get all your files copied to an extra subfolder (or not) - Comment on 4 days ago:
Ah… robocopy… that’s a great tool
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Hardlinks need to be on the same filesystem, don’t they? I don’t see how that would work with a remote backup…?
- Comment on 4 days ago:
It depends
rsync
is fine, but to clarify a little further…If you think you’ll stop the transfer and want it to resume (and some data might have changed), then yep,
rsync
is best.But, if you’re just doing a 1-off bulk transfer in a single run, then you could use other tools like
xcopy
/scp
or - if you’ve mounted the remote NAS at a local mount point - just plain oldcp
The reason for that is that
rsync
has to work out what’s at the other end for each file, so it’s doing some back & forwards communications each time which as someone else pointed out can load the CPU and reduce throughput.(From memory, I think Raspberry Pi don’t handle large transfers over
scp
well… I seem to recall a buffer gets saturated and the throughput drops off after a minute or so)Also, on a local network, there’s probably no point in using encryption or compression options - esp. for photos / videos / music… you’re just loading the CPU again to work out that it can’t compress any further.
- Comment on 2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions 6 days ago:
Ah, but it’s how old you feel which is more important 😉
Maybe those statistics could be really interesting:
- How old do you feel when using proprietary software?
- How old do you feel when using FOSS?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
No, even lighterweight - no containers.
My NAS is mostly plain Arch packages, so just upgrade and all is well. No additional container software layer to maintain either.
Btrfs management tools update with the OS, all is good.
- Comment on Recommendations for Note taking app with simple needs 1 week ago:
+1 on all of this.
Logseq basically saved my mind when I took on a new job where I needed to take a lot of notes quickly, easily and keep track of all the ToDos.
Syncthing keeps my laptop and phone in sync (with my NAS) so I can start notes on my laptop and then finish on my phone.
You can definitely reorder checkboxes, but on Android it’s still not quite a smooth experience, but it’s ok.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 1 week ago:
A confession in here is worth total forgiveness.
I’ll phone your boss and clear it for you…
- Comment on How can i find what files are causing the problem? Opening the app shows everything normal 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s the point (.txt)
- Comment on Is there a self-hosted project that does base64 url decoding in a privacy respecting fashion? 3 weeks ago:
Got an example in BASH?
- Comment on What are you guys using to sort and name music? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. Didn’t know these existed.
- Comment on What I host myself 4 weeks ago:
Mail servers?
How are you finding that these days? I thought all the anti-spam stuff meant that self-hosted email was just not worth it these days?
- Comment on What external services do you use for your selfhosting setup? 5 weeks ago:
- Lets Encrypt…
- Backblaze (for now, until I find an alternative closer to home)
- Comment on Jellyswarrm - reverse proxy all your Jellyfin servers from a single interface, presenting as a standard Jellyfin server, clients should work out of the box. 1 month ago:
🤗
- Comment on Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely? 1 month ago:
Hmm, I setup a Proxmox machine a while back because, well, all the cool kids seemed to do it - and plenty of “support” on youtube
I found Incus and it just seemed better, but it was harder to find info on (back then) and seemed a little unready
Now, I regret not sticking with my gut instinct as I’ve got to basically rip out Proxmox to get Incus in, which means all my VMs are prisoners (and us: 1 VM is Home Assistant!)
So, do you know if it’s possible to migrate my VMs across to Incus, or is it literally wipe drive, start again?
(Obviously the data in each VM can be backed up & restored into new VMs)
- Comment on choosing a NIC for OPNsense 1 month ago:
Ah, ok, good to know, thanks
- Comment on Am I corrupting my data? 1 month ago:
I think you’ve misunderstood
Ok, OMV needs a separate (small) boot drive to install on (ie consider a M.2 / SSD on a USB adapter)
But, then all your (large) storage is used for the NAS.
OMV will run Docker containers, but their data would also be pointed to the large NAS storage.
| Small | Large | |-----------+----------------| | OMV | Files | | Docker| Data, etc |
- Comment on choosing a NIC for OPNsense 1 month ago:
Why the MTU change?
- Comment on Am I corrupting my data? 1 month ago:
I always prefer bare metal for the core NAS functionality. There’s no benefit in adding a hypervisor layer just to create an NFS / SMB / iSCSI share
OMV comes with it’s own bare metal installer, based on Debian, so it’s as stable as a rock.
If you’ve used it before, you’re probably aware that it needs it’s own drive to install on, then everything else is the bulk storage pool… I’ve used various USB / mSATA / M.2 drives over the years and found it’s a really good way to segregate things.
I stopped using OMV when - IMO - “core” functions I was using (ie syncthing) became containers, because I have no use for that level of abstraction (but it’s less work for the OMV dev to maintain addons, so fair enough)
So, you don’t have to install docker, OMV automatically handles it for you.
How much OMV’s moved on, I don’t know, but I thought it would simplify your setup.
- Comment on Am I corrupting my data? 1 month ago:
You should have all your data separately stored, it shouldn’t be locked inside containers, and using a VM hosted on a device to serve the data is a little convoluted
I personally don’t like TrueNAS - I’m not a hater, it just doesn’t float my boat (but I suspect someone will rage-downvote me 😉)
So, as an alternative approach, have a look at OpenMediaVault
It’s basically a Debian based NAS designed for DIY systems, which serves the local drives but it also has docker on, so feels like it might be a better fit for you.
- Comment on Help diagnosing server freeze issue 1 month ago:
Definitely suspect.
You should be able to let memtest run for days with no problems, so a reboot would either be a faulty stick or possibly a faulty motherboard slot.
Swap the RAM between slots to isolate the root cause
- Comment on Securing a 'public' service for family 1 month ago:
GeoIP blocking
You mention a firewall, but for any open ports still restrict the source IPs to limited ranges not “all”.
Personally, at my home’s edge firewall I have pfSense with pfBlocker and that uses a GeoIP database, so I can just pick the countries I want to allow in… you want to block as early as possible (ie at the VPS?), so you might have to look at options
If your family are in the same region, then it should be relatively easy to limit to a few ranges on the VPS
Here’s a quick search result: lite.ip2location.com/ip-address-ranges-by-country