whysofurious

Nice to know I am not alone! And I only recently started with linux, so I guess it's not really something that goes away with time 😂

I need to take a look at an immutable OS sooner or later, although I feel I would be annoyed for not being able to modify stuff for my liking (probably I will never be satisfied in any case)

Thanks for the answer : downtime isn't a problem since I am the only one using the server for now, and I still have leftovers from a previous setup (stremio, local music) for the days I will be without the server.

You are absolutely right, I haven't checked the backups yet, but I will make sure to do it. I was thinking to wipe radarr or sonarr, reinstall the container and restore from their manual backups, to see if everything works. For Immich is probably safer to start from scratch, I don't have that many photos backed-up anyway and I heard it might not always work.

Thanks for the suggestion! Yes I was grabbing everything that casaos didn't have from linuxserver.io, and read some of their stuff too, but I will be sure to check also dockerrun :) Downtime isn't a problem since I am the only one using the server for now, and I still have leftovers from a previous setup (stremio, local music)

Unfortunately I am not going to be able to afford a new hardware upgrade for a while, but otherwise yes that would have been the safest solution :)

Yeah same..as always trailers shows way too much. But definitely going to watch it!

Thanks both for the details, I'll keep everything in mind! Do you have any brand or models you would recommend for your experience? I took a look around and I think I will skip it for now as it will increase my budget a bit more than I want, but I'll go back to it in the future.

Thanks for the answer! Absolutely, as I said in another comment I don't think I can push more than 4tb with the inside drive. I found a crucial ssd for that size at a relatively reasonable price (~260€), I might just wait a little bit to increase the budget and go with that and don't worry about it for a while

No worries! I think I got what you meant, just wanted to make sure. I agree with you to separate storage from apps and systems, in this way if something goes wrong with the main drive (I think) I should also be able to restore the system and not lose any downloaded media or data.

Thanks! I was planning to add a backup storage at one point, I'll probably think about this option then :)

Thanks for the detailed answer! :) Indeed, I read that I would be limited in storage size if choosing the internal option. That said I am not sure I will be using more than 4tb in the next months, considering also that I don't have the need for 4k videos at the moment. Would it be a "waste" to just go for an internal ssd to start, and then upgrade to a larger hdd (external) in the future?

Also, sorry just to clarify, when you say

Make sure you’re not writing logs or anything like that to it, it should be on demand use only

Does downloading media to the drive still counts as a viable thing to do? And I guess the on demand use would be e.g. streaming.

Nice, thanks for the details, will surely give it a go next time I see it :)

I saw this book in many bookshops and I was always tempted to buy it, how is it generally? This particular story seems very interesting!