Current #HomeLab status: I‘m making progress very slowly. The server is assembled and up and running Proxmox 8. Yesterday I‘ve build a custom NixOS installiert that has my SSH key pre-loaded. That way I can boot a VM and set it up using nix-anywhere. Tonight I‘m planning to try this out the first time. #proxmox#NixOS#linux#SysAdmin
SSD harddrive appears to have died on my home network's RPi 4 DNS server and for some stupid reason not a single device automatically started using the secondary. Whats the point in a secondary if nothing bloody uses it!
The family was not amused at the downtime. Made much harder to diagnose by the RPi being headless.
If anyone has advice on recovering a BTRFS superblock from an LVM I'd appreciate it.
@jhx Thanks. I have some older stuff here also which I use for #freebsd also. Jails to the rescue. Only Bhyve bites me every time booting so a separate debian box would be better.
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.
@fink@pasci_lei a) Ich lese bei OP einen ironischen Unterton. b) Eine Person, die genug versteht, um sich eine SearXNG-Instanz zu suchen, bzw. versteht warum man das tun koennte, die hat, vermute ich stark, auch genug Hintergrundwissen, um sich auch durch eine passende Anleitung zu arbeiten. Dass das keine Loesung fuer das Gros ist, ist, finde ich, offensichtlich.
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.
For quite a while now, I have relied on terminal into my Windows Subsystem for Linux on my main workstation, as my daily driver. While it works all right for most cases, there are certain compatibility issues that requires a "... in WSL" search term for documentations/issues.
Close to a month now I have been using a #Ubuntu#terminal only VM on my #homelab#Proxmox cluster. For ones who can roll this out, this seems the best approach.
@AngryAnt@elan The reason I have not switched to Linux DE is mainly due to certain Microsoft productivity apps required for consulting work I do for corporate/enterprises.
I just need to figure out a workflow where I can switch Windows to a secondary workstation/VM and then I would switch to Linux DE.
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.