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 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.
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.
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
@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. 😭
@fwaggle@Prozak Honestly if all you’re getting is a thin consistent layer, you’re doing great!
All you can do is filter more which just means the dust inside will be finer.
I’ve literally been attacked by roaming gangs of dust bunnies from servers.
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.
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.
@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.
@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.
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).
@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. 😁
@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 ;-)
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 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 😅)
@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!
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.