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- Comment on Any experience of Diode? 21 hours ago:
Hmm, ok, I’d not thought of the remote troubleshooting part.
The NAS is at a family member’s home, so the troubleshooting might come up in the future.
Thanks
- Comment on Any experience of Diode? 21 hours ago:
Yeah, my default go to is a site-to-site OpenVPN tunnel, but thought I’d look around at what the kool kidz are doing these days. Thanks.
- Comment on Any experience of Diode? 1 day ago:
Yeah, those are for the layer on top of a secure network.
My use case is less about the backup software, more about the network.
Diode - as far as I can make out from their site - provides both storage and networking, but I’m not interested in their storage (as I don’t understand where it is) - this is about getting data to my offsite NAS, securely.
- Comment on Any experience of Diode? 1 day ago:
Agreed - Diode caught my eye as an alternative to a site-to-site VPN as I have 2x NAS at different locations (+ Backblaze, which I’ll be moving away from)
So, it’s less about the destination, more about the network…
But it feels like the website’s got more time invested in it, than the actual tech solution.
- Comment on Any experience of Diode? 1 day ago:
Yeah, that was kinda my thoughts too.
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- Comment on ADVICE: Running out of storage 2 days ago:
Hmm, didn’t know about this… I was just using
ddto see if the size was about right.Thanks
- Comment on How to start off small with the intent to expand 5 days ago:
Be prepared to change your mind…
That first install of proxmox / nextcloud / whatever, will be removed and you will setup something else - this is a good thing.
So, you’ll probably want to get onsite backups sorted early… even if that’s just cloning to an external drive first.
IMHO don’t consider a NAS as your server - keep them separate. A cheap ebay PC with a couple of drives is fine.
And, if you’re considering home automation you will want a UPS
- Comment on Lemmy being pinged each midnight 1 week ago:
And when you ping that IP address back, what happens?
Can you trace it?
Maybe setup wireshark and record what happens at that time of night…
- Comment on Immich 2.1 Released with Better Slideshow Shuffle, New Notifications 1 week ago:
I run it baremetal, the photos / videos are all on a separate location (so are “Externsl Libraries” in Immich) and are backed up…
As far as the Immich application itself, I’m not currently backing up anything as I’ve been trialing it… but, I’ll aim to backup any configurations, but I’m thinking to maybe ignore any database - it can just relearn everything if I need to do a restore… depends how big that DB is…
- Comment on Looking for recommendation to upgrade my Raspberry Pi-based home server 2 weeks ago:
Check out www.servethehome.com
They (just him?) did a whole load of SFF / 1 Litre reviews a while ago - it’s probably better (easier) to watch his youtube channel as then you actually get to see what he’s talking about.
He also covers some of those “brandnames” and addresses some differences when they ordered identical devices and compared what was received.
Depending on what your future plans are, some of the newer boxes are multi-NIC multi-Gb devices so you might find something “better” there.
- Comment on What's the best chat to self host? 2 weeks ago:
Nice breakdown
+1 for including the word “behoove” in your blog
- Comment on What's the best chat to self host? 2 weeks ago:
+1 for XMPP
I’m also hoping to self-host Prosidy (when I get a spare evening / weekend), so if you could post your notes that would be good.
There are some good notes on the Arch Wiki if that helps
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 2 weeks ago:
Write things down
You will break something - and that’s good, it’s the best way to learn - but you’ll want to make a note of what you did / went wrong / how you fixed it.
Future you will still break things and be grateful that you wrote that thing down
You’ll buy something and find next year it was the wrong thing (too small, too large, too old, too new), so just get second hand stuff until you know what you need.
Cabled networks are so much better than wireless, but then you’ll need switches and cables and shelves and stuff… so using today’s wifi is fine, but know where you’re heading.
You need to store you stuff - that’ll be in a NAS
You need something to run services on - that’ll be your server
These might be the same physical metal lump (your 2nd laptop?), they might be separate… play around, break something and work out what feels right for you… and then put your data on there
… and that’ll break too.
Just be aware… if sync files between devices. That’s not a backup. (Consider you’ve deleted / corrupted something - it’s now replicated everywhere)
Having a NAS with 10 drives in a RAID6 array, is not a backup. It’s just really robust against a drive failure, but a deleted file is still a deleted file.
Take a full copy of your data off your system - then restore it somewhere else.
Did it work? If so, that’s a backup.
- Comment on Multi node media server 2 weeks ago:
Are you trying to solve one problem, but then find the next?
If you solve the problem of the media selection (which looks like some form of database replication), then what happens if both parents select media they don’t have at the same / similar time - you’ve stated elsewhere that this is the bottleneck.
I think it’s going to be much simpler to just replicate the media and let them work locally.
I don’t know what your script with rsync is doing, but syncthing can limit bandwidth and have exclusion patterns, so perhaps one set of parents don’t want anything from GenreA and you could exclude that.
Similarly if both parents lile GenreC and you don’t, then just sync that between their systems and save your storage.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Thanks 👍🏻
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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
prosodyat home. - Comment on can we now "safely" auto upgrade immich? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Ahh, ok. Thanks for clarifying.
- Comment on Another update that no one asked for 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
I replaced NC with Radicale
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
One thing I forgot to mention:
rsynchas 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 3 weeks ago:
Ah… robocopy… that’s a great tool
- Comment on 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
It depends
rsyncis 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,
rsyncis best.But, if you’re just doing a 1-off bulk transfer in a single run, then you could use other tools like
xcopy/scpor - if you’ve mounted the remote NAS at a local mount point - just plain oldcpThe reason for that is that
rsynchas 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
scpwell… 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 3 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.