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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Like 1 hour every two months or so, I just run an ansible playbook and check everything is working ok

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I worked in the nightshitf for almost 2 years and can confirm this is so true.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes I use it a lot to read manga and some books. Works perfectly. On Android you can connect with CDisplayEX.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great summary. How does work the provision with terraform? Do you have some guide? Is possible to provision LXC/VM on proxmox with ansible instead?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Syncthing, Gitea, jellyfin (with arr stack), audiobookshelf, Kavita.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great starting point! I think option 1 will be better for this scenario. But later if you can, a cheap desktop build will be better for proxmox since you will have more room to expand and play with more things, add more storage even GPU for jellyfin.

Have fun!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I perform a backup once a week from my main desktop to a HDD, then once a month I copy important data/files from all nodes (proxmox, rpi's and main desktop) to 2 "cold" unplugged HDD that's the only time I connect them. I do all of that using rsync with backup.sh and coldbackup.sh

I use syncthing for notes across mobile/desktop/notebook, for that and other important files the backup goes to Google Drive or MEGA (besides the offline backup).

I want to try S3 Glacier since is cheaper for cloud backup... has anyone tried?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Sure you can check https://trash-guides.info/

and here is my setup, I'm using podman containers for everything

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can we get a factorio server?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm using my RPi4 4gb to run a home media server, jellyfin and *arr stack all containerized and automated. Also syncthing for obsidian. Works perfectly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Wait for it to go up gain 🥲. But now I'm curious how people use 4G as second option maybe I will try juat for fun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

+1 for obsidian and syncthing, I like to avoid the use of many applications. So everything related to writing text/notes for personal use I do centralize in obsidian. You can even make some drawings or handwriting with excalidraw, hady for diagrams.

 

So I have been running a proxmox server for a few month now, just playing with it a bit blindly. Just recently bough another drive and reading the storage docs I got some question how does everyone else do things... now I'm planning a backup strategy and want to know what are good practices to manage my VMs/LXC and storage in general.

I currently have:

  • 250G SSD shared between host and VMs/LXC
  • 4TB HDD in RAID1 (ZFS)
  • 8TB HDD as LVM

I normally create VMs with 30G base storage in the SSD and add another virtual hard drive to the VM from the HDDs to create a LVM inside the VMs to store data. Is that good enough? Would I have bad performance creating the VMs in the HDDs?

When creating a snapshot I see this warning below:

WARNING: Sum of all thin volume sizes (438.00 GiB) exceeds the size of thin pool pve/data and the size of whole volume group (<223.07 GiB).

That got me wondering:

  • How should I store snapshots in another drive? In the ZFS? Would cause issues if I delete old snapshots?
  • What about backups for the VMs? I'd like to have automatic weekly backups but how should I plan this?
  • Also I'm not sure if the 8TB is ok as LVM or should be LVM-thin or directory?

If you know any proxmox storage management guide for newbies please share, any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for reading.

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