blackvoid

@blackvoid@mastodon.social

Synology media partner focusing on #Synology #NAS, #Docker, and #selfhost.

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masukomi, (edited ) to random
@masukomi@connectified.com avatar

I went to check something on our and um.... 💩!

These drives are spinning platters that have served us well for almost 41,000 hours of use, so I can't really blame them for having a hard time.

Can any of you hardware geeks tell me how worried I should be? This is a configured as a Synology Hybrid Raid https://kb.synology.com/en-br/DSM/tutorial/What_is_Synology_Hybrid_RAID_SHR

I guess i've got some research to do today
@dachary

EDIT: Replacement Drives ordered. Thanks for the feedback.

blackvoid,

@masukomi @Smingleigh As suggested backup the data and start replacing the drives one at a time. The risk of another failing drive during rebuild is high as the stress on the array is intensive. So having multiple drives flagged should be taken seriously.
SHR vs conventional raid is only that it allows a combination of disks that are not of the same capacity. Meaning it will utilize them better but in some cases that makes sense with more drives (number of disk and their size).

blackvoid,

@Kaldo While a lot has already been said I would like to comment on several things. 1st, get the best NAS you can in a class you are looking for. These devices are a long term investment and they will last you a long time. The drives are likely to fail before the NAS does or the DSM support comes to an end.

Stick to the official supported list of drives. Yes, you can run “unlisted” disks but in case you will need Syno assistance and you are running unsupported drives, you will be in trouble.

blackvoid, to Synology

Full review of the coming in a few days! Waiting for the new update to be picked up by the device itself as it should fix certain pending issues and bugs.

Do you see yourself as a BeeStation user? If you are not sure, hopefully the upcoming lengthy review will answer some questions and help you decide.

podperson, to apple

Anyone accusing of planned obsolescence needs to explain to me why all my Apple stuff won’t die.

(Well, except for an Apple Pencil that was lost for a couple of years and won’t take a charge any more.)

This is my 2015 MacBook Pro that I got second hand in 2017 for $900 (a steal—it’s pretty maxed out). It had been a colleague’s daily driver. It’s been in use constantly since, including for gaming.

My 2015 iPad Pro also refuses to die. I would really like it to die so I can replace it.

blackvoid,

@podperson I hear you! June 2023, replacing this working iPhone4 for a SE edition using Air 2011 edition. It just works.

blackvoid, to selfhosted

Heppy new year to all out there! May your setups be error, bad sector, and crash free, and let there be enough storage for all our needs!

Time to kick this ‘24 with some classics... volume 100, …GO!

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brunty, (edited ) to selfhosted
@brunty@brunty.social avatar

Fediverse! What are your favourite things and why?

blackvoid,

@brunty Hard to pick just one, but if I have to, it would be Ghost blog platform.

Ofc @bitwarden, and are right up there.

But again, the list is long and the reason is simple. It works, under my control and something that is part of my daily usage.

brunty, to random
@brunty@brunty.social avatar

Just 2 more stacks to move from my old server to my new one!

I originally set the new one up as an agent connected to the old one thinking there would be a way to change an agent into a standalone server but there isn't

So the 5 stacks I'd re-created on the agent (and moved their data etc) had to be re-done!

blackvoid,

@brunty Did a migration a while back (portainer server to a new server with 4 attached agents). Curious why not use the Portainer EE edition rather then CE?

kohelet, to random
@kohelet@mstdn.social avatar

Setting up vaultwarden in a docker was one of the easiest things I had in my entire career of self hosting (it is not a very long career).

blackvoid,

@kohelet …and down the rabbit hole you go! Welcome!

TDP4, to linux

Catastrophic Raid5 loss at home. I had an array of 10 drives, 9 data + 1 parity lose 2 drives. It's a Synology SS1019+ with an external enclosure.

About 90TB in total, 90% full. Synology refuses to mount it. Drive errors galore in dmesg. I'm at a loss of what to do next.

I have a spare drive (all 12TB) just as a FYI, and am considering moving them all to a case I have with enough bays and to linux them into submission and try to recover something. But my MDADM foo is weak and the best I have is google right now.

I expect I'll spend most of today trying to recover a little before admitting defeat, RMA drives, and starting clean.

I'll admit I made many mistakes to get here. Only one drive parity, dumb. Not backing up when it told me, dumb. Not making sure everything I care about was in at least 2 places, dumb. And I had the gall to call myself "data paranoid"

blackvoid,

@TDP4 Ugh. Sorry to hear about this. Hope you will get it all going in the end.

dustinrue, to random
@dustinrue@chateaude.luxe avatar

What do you self host?

blackvoid,

@dustinrue A lot! Almost all services that I use apart from email. Be it a , chat platform, blogs, wikis, the works…

davemark, to apple
@davemark@mastodon.social avatar

Use a Mac? What are the MUST HAVE apps you install on every new Mac?

For me, it's Keyboard Maestro (keyboardmaestro.com) and BBEdit (bbedit.com)

Any must haves you'd add? 🤔

blackvoid,

@davemark ...

annika, to Synology
@annika@xoxo.zone avatar

Took me a minute but I got Convos.chat's Docker container working with Synology Container Manager. I couldn't use the "Web Station" reverse proxy, I had to proxy manually using Login Portal > Advanced > Reverse Proxy.

Per the FAQ, you need these 5 custom headers, the last 2 of which enable WebSockets through the proxy:

  • Host: $host
  • X-Forwarded-For: $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for
  • X-Request-Base: $scheme://$host/
  • Upgrade: $http_upgrade
  • Connection: $connection_upgrade

blackvoid,

@annika Using The Lounge for IRC needs but I will definitely try Convos as well!

blackvoid, to Synology

Testing out backed up data. Works like a charm.

In case you missed it, version 2.5+ of Active Backup offers macOS endpoint backup option.

Bare metal restore, including file/folder restore via Recovery portal.

https://www.blackvoid.club/synology-active-backup-for-business-2-5-support-for-macos-is-here/

blackvoid,

@danb I hear you! Unfortunately the other two mainstream OS are still the main focus for Synology when it comes to new features and updates. I recall their initial announcement for macOS support for ABB. It took nearly 4y to implement it.

One of the reasons why I am so happy that now that it is here, it works so well.

bursaar, to random

Is anybody else here on a near-pathological self-hosting buzz?

blackvoid,

@bursaar Ofc! Started slow back in 2015, but so far almost everything apart from email :D.

djvdq, (edited ) to random
@djvdq@mastodon.social avatar

How confident are you about your self-hosting, that it won't just blow up some day and all your data would be gone?

I'd like to try to self-host as much as it would make sense (but without overdoing it) but I'm afraid I'd mess something up, and I'd lose everything I have.

What are your backup strategies?

I know Google/Dropbox/OneDrive/whatever can also lose users data, but I also know, that I have much bigger chance to blow my data up by myself than that they would lose it.

blackvoid,

@djvdq Local snaps, local backups, and off-site backups as well. I sleep well while selfhosting.

liaizon, to random
@liaizon@wake.st avatar

If you have notes in Evernote it might be a good time to make sure they are safely backed up! Evernote looks to have fired almost all its employees.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609641

blackvoid,

@joelpomales @liaizon on the note of NoteStation, atm (for a while now tbh) there is no development team behind it in . I wouldn't be surprised if they deprecate it at one point in the future.

chrisonline, to random
@chrisonline@androiddev.social avatar

Just upgraded my from 7.1 to 7.2!
No problems so far. Again, a great job from Synology.

The only bad move is that the "Docker" app is now called "Container Manager". WHY? 😱

The good part is that it now supports docker-compose.yml files.
So I can possibly remove . Let's see.

blackvoid,

@chrisonline While a welcome move with more attention to solution from , I still prefer @portainerio for more then one reason, even for a single docker host.

Glad your upgrade was smooth!

blackvoid, to random

Let's see what the cameras can do. Both and are here tomorrow for one month of testing.

https://www.blackvoid.club/synology-bc500-tc500-cameras/

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blackvoid, to random

The new release candidate has arrived! DSM 7.2 - 64551 brings all the features from the beta with a lot of new patches and updates for the various platforms and frameworks that the system is using.

https://www.blackvoid.club/dsm-7-2-release-candidate-rc-is-live

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