kilof,
box464, I've been playing it loosey goosey with backups on my #HomeLab lately. Durnik, my original Portainer workhorse, gets all the love and has very specific backup routines per application hosted.
My new ProxMox powerhouse, Belgarath, is going the lazy admin route - I just backup the the entire server as an image daily. Thinking it's time to revisit and setup similar per VM / app backups.
kiraso, @box464 Did you try Proxmox Backup Server? Easy to set up and saves space with incremental backups
box464, @kiraso Haven't yet! I'm using ProxMox to backup the server daily but not PBS. I saw it as needing to take over an entire hardware device so that's why I haven't moved on it. Need to do some consolidation of my portainer instances and then I'll have a free device to configure as a backup solution.
dthacker9, Do you know when you have hung on to a mobile phone for too long? When you get a quote to sell it and the phone is worth $2 USD. Sleep well Pixel2. I'll find something for you to do in the #homelab.
mhamzahkhan, @dthacker9 I would love to use my stash of old phones to do something productive in my homelab.
I was trying to get #K3S deployed on a few old phones using #postmarketos but I gave up in the end. 😅
craftyguy, @mhamzahkhan which phones?
Prozak, Yesterday i replaced a SSD in one of my home servers. The amount of dust was terrible. A very thin and consistent layer of dust in all the insides. What tips can you share to attenuate dust inside our boxes? #homelab #homeserver
fwaggle, @Prozak In my experience, unless you run them in a mostly-dust-free environment (ie no carpet, don't have pets, run them indoors, good filtration and air conditioning) you're basically doomed to have dust sooner or later.
I just run my shit in the garage and make peace with the fact that taking it offline for service is a 2x a year ordeal. 😭
Wraithe,
zrail, My decision making process is not coherent.
zrail, I have no justification for this largess. I just wanted one or two spares to mess with because I have five in production and sometimes I need to FA to FO. I could have spent $40 on one machine but I chose to spend $160 on 16 machines.
I haven't tested any yet but they all look to be in good physical shape and all appear to have their (incredibly rare) wifi cards. If they all work I can plausibly part out half the wifi cards for what I paid for the lot.
webology, @zrail Have you written up how you use them? Less technical but more practical. Do you have one in your kitchen?
chad, Upgraded the homelab’s 10gb switch to the UniFi EnterpriseXG. Not only do I have more 10gb ports now, I also have far fewer SFP+ modules in use, and the switches are all matchy matchy.
Also, I swear the whole rig has less latency now. I can’t prove it, but it sure feels snappier.
bazcurtis, @chad That reminds me of a trip to our data centre. They were doing a rack refresh and had a lot of old racks. My boss went straight to the manager and said, can I take one home, it will be ideal for my garage.
He got a free rack.
wagesj45, This backup is gonna take a while. And this is only part of one folder.
wagesj45, Windows Explorer crashed 25% through. :pepe_g:
wagesj45, Update: 1 disk down, 3 to go. :jarden:
sanjaymenon, (edited ) How to Install Portainer and Uptime Kuma using Docker
https://sanjaymenon.xyz/blog/monitor-homelab-portainer-uptimekuma/
vordenken, @sanjaymenon The title confused me then… I thought it’s about how you monitor things in your homelab with a setup guide and examples.
Don’t want to sound rude but I don’t understand what’s the point of this post then. How to install portainer/uptime kuma is covered by their official publishers.
sanjaymenon, Apologies for any confusion caused by the title.
I will add some guide with examples in near-future. (All my posts are more like WIP always)
Your feedback is valuable, and I'll certainly take it into consideration for future posts to ensure clarity and relevance.
lpwaterhouse, Re-organizing the #Homelab and currently stuck on #HardThingNo2, naming things. My #aspie brain thinks it'd make most practical sense to name things by function, e.g. workstation01, firewall01, cluster01node01, etc. (which adds the question of how many leading zeroes), would like to name things with geeky references e.g. FUCKUP, Ozma, 7of9, etc. (which runs into issues as soon as you try for a coherent theme of enough components...), and is worried that from a security perspective something memorable yet unrelated to its function might be wise, e.g. blue charybdis, amber cyclops, periwinkle gorgon (But then I'm not running a spy agency here... as far as you know :-P).
mforester, @lpwaterhouse I had a short phase where I used thrash metal bands for my machines. 😅
No particular reason for why I stopped, but my two remaining machines are now called monster and beast, with beast being my beefy desktop pc. 😁
lpwaterhouse, @mforester For the longest time I used Star Trek characters, tpau is still chugging along just fine. And I used to work at a FAANG-level corp where the primary and secondary email server were called data (so far so good) and lore, so I guess I wasn't in the wrong crowd there :-P But that also taught me the value of systematic names; When you spin up dozens of machines elastically then naming them isn't only pointless, it actively hinders swift error localization, because your brain goes through that additional level of indirection. function-location-somewhatuniqueid is really helpful. But then so it is for an intruder, a host named auth-something or db-something is sure the get attention fast during a breach, which is why some security departments actively mandate something like IP-, MAC-, or GUID-only, which in turn is nightmare to debug yet again... None of which applies much to a homelab, except insofar as I want to play with "realistic" toys. sigh My brain us just stuck in the evaluation loop; It's a familiar feeling, though :-P If someone has a link to a reasonable "current best practice" document I'll take it, otherwise I'll just go with boring+functional again ;-)
mmeier, I've got an idea. Let's form an IoT company. One that makes really great, high quality, well designed products. You know, ones that don't drop out every time you look at them wrong. We offer them cheap, burning through some VC money.
We will certainly fail. But for one glorious moment, people will know good IoT. And the next time somebody tries to sell them crap, they get beaten to a pulp with their shitty products.
And perhaps then, we will actually get good IoT stuff.
boilingsteam, (edited ) Do you run a home server 24/7 ? (not talking about a remote vps here but actual hardware you run at your place)
bojidar_bg, @boilingsteam Question: does a machine running 24/7 when one's away but 16/7 (sleeps at night to save on fan noise) when one's home count?
(Counted it as a "Yup" anyway 😅)
boilingsteam, @bojidar_bg close enough!
linuxtldr, Is it a best solution?
#HomeLab
technotim,
- HomeLab is a Marathon, not a Sprint
- Forward Compatible Releases
- Traefik 3 is Here
david, #homelab success: This post is served from here! #mastodon #selfhosted
david, @2ndStar Ein wenig zu ernst befürchte ich 😄 Schienen für den Storage-Server, der da unten so unbeteiligt rum steht, sind unterwegs und ich befürchte, dass in nächster Zeit meine Stromrechnung durch die Decke gehen wird. Aber macht schon auch Spaß, wenn dann alles läuft!
phranck, German @david Jetzt passt es. 😃
axelrafn, Got word from my landlord that the #PowerUsage is a bit high, so I just bought a #WattMeter to place here in my office to see what the usage of the #server and such is, and if it's high then I'm going to look into making a new #homelab with lower wattage computers.
Coming from #Iceland where the electricity is so cheap it messes a bit with a person's mind and behaviour.
axelrafn, @alda I'm just still on Icelandic power consumption and prices it seems. Had way much going on there without a care in the world.
alda, @axelrafn Yeah. We found out the hard way that keeping that giant OLED TV in the living room running during the day surely affects the power bill.
willmurphy, How are folks doing #dns or #servicediscovery for their #homelab? I have a small but useful #django app running on my LAN, and I’m tired of remembering the IP address of the raspberry pi that’s running it.
cdp1337, So if you are looking for a #Python network diagnostic utility (command line), something you can run on a laptop when doing common troubleshooting for misbehaving networks, what are some features you'd like to have?
Thus far I'm thinking
- IP
- link speed
- neighbor data via LLDP (to know what port a given outlet is plugged into)
- gateway
- DNS info
- "is google reachable"
ainmosni, As my old NUC was showing its age, and didn't suffice for my #homelab needs anymore, I decided to build a new one. And because I prefer running all my #selfhosted in containers, but abhor fucking around with #docker and docker-compose, it's a single-node #k8s cluster, using #k3s, just like my old server. One big difference is that the new server has a decent amount of drives for storage. I decided to set up #zfs to manage that, and zfs is all it's cracked up to be.
xoxys, @ainmosni VolSync might be worth a look https://github.com/backube/volsync
ainmosni, @xoxys The sync functionality not so much, but the restic functionality is interesting.
ben,
denix, PSA: the Linux "Predictable Network Interface Device Names" concept sometimes is unpredictable!
Upgraded Proxmox VE from 8.1 to 8.2 on Minisforum MS-01 and 10 GigE network interfaces gained a new "npX" suffix -> no network. Get your local consoles ready!
If I'm reading it right, "n<port-num>" specifies "p0" and "p1" ports, so the interface names are now by default:
enp2s0f0 -> enp2s0f0np0
enp2s0f1 -> enp2s0f1np1I know about udev and hwdb, but the change was unexpected...
WagesOf, Well, I guess I'll have to upgrade the whole #homelab if I want the newest kubernetes to work.
Needs to be done anyway.
All aboard the struggle bus, we're going up that hill!
WagesOf, Huh, that was pretty painless.
Ubuntu 20->22->24 and all the containers for the services just kind of worked.
Also moved the certbot updater to dnsapi since the orchestrator sits on 443 and it's a pain to script the swap. New api key and a few clicks and bam, done.
unixorn, TL;DR: If you have a fritz!box, you're hacked.
https://crapts.org/2024/04/21/all-fritz-box-modems-have-been-hijacked/
Edit: @hedders posted a summary of exactly what makes you vulnerable at https://mas.to/@hedders/112310356855024818
#HomeLab #InfoSec #HomeNetworking @homelab @homelabs #fritzbox
chad, The evolution of my homelab from 2016 to today.
#HomeLab #selfhosted #selfhosting #selfhost #unifi #Proxmox #synology
bazcurtis, @chad I loved my Drobo. Such a shame what happened to them. I still have my 5D. It is a shame it doesn’t work just because of software.
AngryAnt, @chad Not running the mini anymore? I still keep a couple around for the excellent low power performance :)
With ethernet dongles they run multipath iSCSI to the storage server most excellently.
jhx, Another great resource for all the #homelab / #seflhosting people out there 😎
ivan, @jhx ah sorry, I am retard, just posted this as a response to your previous post. Ignore me 😂
jhx, @ivan
No worries 😉
jhx, Great list of services for all the #selfhosting / #homelab folks out there 😎