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- Comment on Cams, anyone? 5 hours ago:
If the timestamps on the current live cctv image looks completely different, then you’re out of luck using it as evidence.
After all, it’s your video evidence, why would you want to fake it if you’re trying to prove that someone stole that Amazon parcel off your front door step…
This isn’t X-Files… 🛸
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 5 hours ago:
Well, slap me sideways with a boxed edition of Windows XP SP3.
I never knew that!
Thanks for sharing.
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 21 hours ago:
Slightly off topic and something I read from somewhere else, but make sure whatever you use can write the date & time onto the camera images, otherwise it isn’t usable for any police / insurance claims.
I’d guess all systems do this now, but just wanted it to be on your checklist of features.
If the camera doesn’t do it, then the storage server must.
(And make sure the clock is sync’d to something 😉)
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 21 hours ago:
Me too (btw).
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 21 hours ago:
Zoneminder is an option.
It’s been around since before containers were a thing, so fairly stable.
Not used it myself, but when I get around to needing cameras (I’m in a small house in a low crime area), then thats what I’m planning to use.
It has (had?) an integration in MythTv too, so I can see who’s a the door whilst watching TV at the same time.
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 21 hours ago:
Sigh, unfortunately not.
You should see the Linux community asking about which distro to use - now that’s where a pinned post is needed…
- Comment on We Surveyed 2,158 Self-Hosters: Here's What Keeps Us Hosting 1 week ago:
Define “properly”…
- Comment on Backups of Backups 1 week ago:
I see lots of solutions here, but some explanation of the basics are missing for someone starting out… this is not meant to sound preachy…
RAID is not a backup. It’s just better hardware fault tolerance. Delete does the same thing on RAID as it does one 1 drive.
Everyone syncs / copies / duplicates files somewhere, but you need a way of finding the previous backup in case something was deleted. This can be done with various ways / tech, but the point is - have some history not just 1 copy. Many pointers to 3-2-1 in here, but that also doesn’t mean 3 copies of just today’s data…
Backups are nothing without Restores. Test the backups. Various ways, but do it. Often.
And consider what you’re backing up and why… ie just your data? (Ie photos), or all the config files, databases, operating systems, etc to do a full restore on new metal. If the latter, I recommend keeping your data separate from the OS / config files, etc.
Source: decades of tech disasters 😁
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Sooo… where’s the self-hosted material coming from if Bluray’s aren’t being produced any more?
If the high seas dries up, are we up shit creek and have to stream?
- Comment on Can a Smart TV piggy back the internet of a HDMI device? 1 week ago:
Oooh, names? (Of ISPs)
- Comment on What OS do you like for digital signage/kiosk/dashboard only? 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft Windows surely?
/s
- Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against. 2 weeks ago:
Interesting.
I have an old free email provider that’s just passed the email service to another provider
I’m looking to move because I used to be able to use <anything-at-all>@my-email.domain and I’m not sure I’ll be able to do that anymore
I basically do what you’re doing - using email prefixes for the site I’m registering with… I even caught a company out once when I suddenly started getting spam from that email address. They’d sold my details…
- Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against. 2 weeks ago:
Just to address the resourcing point…
VM resources can be over allocated, meaning that the hypervisor will try it’s best to meet their requirements, so you’re not wasting anything and could run more VMs than you have resources for.
Yes, VMs can also be configured to need a certain amount of resources and the hypervisor will have to stop, but I just wanted you to know it’s not fixed.
- Comment on OPNsense Bare Metal vs Virtualization 2 weeks ago:
Performance is going to be the same.
Security is the main point here.
If this is your internet facing firewall then you want minimal layers of software complexity, so bare metal is the answer.
I’m a pfSense user, so I don’t know how regularly OPNsense is updated, but, it’s so much easier to just reboot that 1 box whilst everything else is mostly unaffected.
Better still, do a full device backup before an update and then you have a simple disaster recovery backup in case of any problems.
- Comment on opencloud - I migrated from nextcloud. Screenshots and docker-compose-compose.yml included 2 weeks ago:
My journey:
Random stuff --> OwnCloud --> Nextcloud --> syncthing + Radicale
I gave up with the constant changes during upgrades and increasing dependencies for features that we weren’t using.
Now my system’s lean, light, responsive and just works (on a Pi3)
Prosody’s next…
- Comment on Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR 2 weeks ago:
Every way?
Well, apart from simplicity and security I suppose… and networking…
Oh, and storage…
But, before you think I’m arguing with you, I’m not… Containers have their place, VMs also, they are just for different uses.
In this case, I have a NAS, with Immich installed directly on it and I don’t have to mess with any abstraction layers… and it all plays nice with the other applications.
Maybe yours is different… but mine is better on bare metal.
- Comment on Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR 2 weeks ago:
Gotta chime in with a +1 for bare metal too…
- Comment on Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR 2 weeks ago:
How so?
- Comment on What is a good self-hosted solution for sharing files with friends? 2 weeks ago:
I think this summarises all the other answers here
- Comment on Every single time I think of restructuring my homelab storage. What do you use for storage engines and how does it benefit you? 2 weeks ago:
Backups… with LVM, if you’re trying to do a full system backup (ie with clonezilla, etc) then you have to backup the whole thing - you can’t backup just 1 drive.
I have a media server with 2x 2TB HDDs and 1x SSD in a LVM, split into Music, Video, TV… and the OS … and I can backup the individual files of course, but I can’t backup just the OS drive.
btrfs didn’t exist when I created it, but I use it on my NAS and it’s great.
I’ll be rebuilding my media server one day and change LVM to btrfs.
- Comment on Any experience of Diode? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that was kinda my thoughts too.
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- Comment on ADVICE: Running out of storage 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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…