Zwuzelmaus
@Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
- Comment on I'm upgrading from an old pc to a NAS with OMV. What about RAID? 3 days ago:
Why do we do this?
For a thorough motivation why you want ZFS, read that original article of the inventors
ZFS the Last Word in File Systems Jeff Bonwick Bill Moore docslib.org/…/zfs-the-last-word-in-file-systems-j…
There are several good overviews/tutorials about how to do it. I recommend the one in FreeBSD, even though you don’t need to actually use Freebsd for it.
- Comment on problems with AR8151 onboard LAN 4 days ago:
Three 🙄
- Comment on 'My own piece of the Internet: Part 1', a blog post discussing the process of getting an ARIN ASN and a /24 IPv4 block for their home setup 4 days ago:
Also worth noting for most readers: you get 95% of the fun (your own ASN visible in bgp.tools, learning BGP hands-on) by renting a cheap VPS from providers that offer BGP sessions on a /48 or even a /24 you lease monthly. Owning the /24 outright is mainly for the permanence.
Isn’t permanence one of the major goals if you start that road at all?
Cheap fun never lasts.
- Comment on How long do you keep your backups? 5 days ago:
How long do you keep your backups?
Yes, I have that exernal HDD lying around somewhere near the PC, and it was at least 4 or 5 times that I backed up a lot of files on it.
I think I keep it for more than 10 years now.
- Comment on Self-Hosting a DNS Sinkhole is really important 5 days ago:
Hug your kids
…while you still can.
- Comment on used hard drive retailers 2 weeks ago:
OK so 5 years is kinda game changer.
Around here, I have only ever seen 1 year. - Comment on used hard drive retailers 2 weeks ago:
For refurbished drives, the SMART values are reset to “new”.
- Comment on used hard drive retailers 2 weeks ago:
Would you be satisfied if all your refurb drives live only for the duration of this warranty?
I wouldn’t. Especially as a private buyer (or a small business) I would expect that most of them must live much longer than that.
- Comment on used hard drive retailers 2 weeks ago:
fairly cheap refurb hard drive seller
Rant:
As a private person, you should avoid refurbished hard drives like the pest!
Imagine buying a used car where the mileage counter has been reset to zero and the vehicle identification number has been tampered with, so that you cannot find out it’s history. You see that it looks shiny and you know that it has been checked (well, somewhat), but you don’t know that checklist. You even know that nobody knows that checklist.
Seriously, you can only assume the worst about this used hard drive’s real condition (years of usage, highest temperature, number of bad sectors…), and also about this reseller.
Refurbished hard drives can only be bought by data centers (or other mass users), where their failure rate is calculated by statistics, but not by 5 or 20 failed drives.
- Comment on DC UPS for router? 3 weeks ago:
The common solution is not to replace the UPS but only the battery inside. They are standard sizes and for a cheap UPS probably around 10 - 20 bucks.
- Comment on Local homeserver suddenly not responsive to SSH but can be pinged 5 weeks ago:
I have also seen a situation where ssh did not accept a connection anymore when the disk was full.
- Comment on Local homeserver suddenly not responsive to SSH but can be pinged 5 weeks ago:
From what machine? Pc? Mobile? If a PC, how is it connected to the Pi? Direct cable, a switch, a WiFi…? Does the Pi use a fixed address in your home network?
- Comment on Expanding my laptops HDD capacity 1 month ago:
Extremely stylish 🗽
- Comment on SMART data on some old drives, can anyone beat my powered-on times? 2 months ago:
It was actually a sad day when we powered it off for the last time
No, it died not from the reboot.
It died because it’s life had no meaning anymore, after you had taken all the workload off it.
/s
- Comment on Selfhosting as a Linux newbie - Ubuntu Server LTS or Debian 13? 2 months ago:
I use Debian as my daily driver
Chances are that you would find Ubuntu not just more complicated, but unneccessary complicated.
Stay with Debian. It can do everything.
- Comment on What's your contingency plan for the apocalypse? 4 months ago:
UPS for 1-2 minutes.
They won’t find my server ;-)
Feds are coming
…most important: I am not inside Usa.
- Comment on What are your self–hosted alternatives for inter device communication? 4 months ago:
Yes. AI agent that doesn’t even identify as such. A shame.
- Comment on Getting Started with Proxmox 1 year ago:
You have that new machine to play with. So do it.
Install it and play around. If you do nothing that should “last forever” in these first days, you can tear it down and do it again in different ways.
- Comment on Looking for ... inventory management, I guess? 1 year ago:
a version controlled markdown file
There’s a lot of genius in this idea …
- Comment on Need help getting domain to resolve over LAN 1 year ago:
Now you know that the problem is not your DNS.
It is either your routing or firewalling.
- Comment on Need help getting domain to resolve over LAN 1 year ago:
I tell it to point docmost.example.com to 192.168.1.80, […] but actually nothing happens. I get a connection timed out error.
I suggest to collect more info about this “nothing”.
ping from your PC on the inside to the name docmost.example.com
ping from your PC on the inside to the number 192.168.1.80
traceroute from your PC on the inside to the name docmost.example.com
traceroute from your PC on the inside to the number 192.168.1.80
Then do the same in the reverse direction: from that docker container to your PC.
Maybe traceroute shows you some stations on the route. Then do the same from this station.
Write down the results thoroughly.