• Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It makes me start looking for the next thing. Got my jellyfin, got my pi hole, my retro console and just recently home assistant set up. (Just a few more buts to add to that). Next i think i am going to look into self hosting a cloud storage solution. Like google drive/photos etc. Would be nice to make my own backups and have them offline

  • beegnyoshi@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I haven’t messed with my raspberry pi in maybe a month… And I think one of my backups got corrupted because I receive an email saying that it failed along with tons of errors every night. Hmm, maybe I should get to that soon…

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    All of those systems in your homelab…they aren’t all pulling down their updates multiple times over your network link, right? You’re making use of a network-wide cache? For Debian-family systems, something like Apt-Cacher NG?

    Oh. You’re not. Well, that’s probably okay. I mean, not everyone can have their environment optimized to minimize network traffic.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You can forgejo with a container index enabled, I don’t know if there’s a way to use that as a proxy for downloading containers though.

    • the_tab_key@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I set this up years ago, but then decided it was better to just install different distros on each of my computers. Problem solved?

    • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Have you tested your backups recently? Having them complete is one thing, having the data you need for recovery is another. Have you backed up your vm configurations and build scripts?

      Go test your latest backup!

        • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Ah, that frission of excitement when you come to restore! Will it work? Does it contain that very important file? Is it up to date? How much will future you hate past you if it isn’t there?

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    logging is probably down

    You do, of course have a dedicated rsyslogd server? An isolated system to which logs are sent, so that if someone compromises another one of your systems, they can’t wipe traces of that compromise from those systems?

    Oh. You don’t. Well, that’s okay. Not every lab can be complete. That Raspberry Pi over there in the corner isn’t actually doing anything, but it’s probably happy where it is. You know, being off, not doing anything.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You have remote power management set up for the systems in your homelab, right? A server set up that you can reach to power-cycle other servers, so that if they wedge in some unusable state and you can’t be physically there, you can still reboot them? A managed/smart PDU or something like that? Something like one of these guys?

    Oh. You don’t. Well, that’s probably okay. I mean, nothing will probably go wrong and render a device in need of being forcibly rebooted when you’re physically away from home.

    • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I built an 8 outlet version of those with relays and wall outlets for… a lot less.

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Oh. You don’t. Well, that’s probably okay. I mean, nothing will probably go wrong and render a device in need of being forcibly rebooted when you’re physically away from home.

      *furiously adds a new item to the TODO list*

      • TerHu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        if you can cycle your home assistant with the shelly plug whilst your home assistant is down, yes. from experience it’s really quite annoying to have a smart plug switch off HA…

        • lemming741@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          HA is on the same proxmox host as the router. So yeah I can end up locked out. Hasn’t happened yet tho! The relay is on my test machine, it’s always nvidia that crashes there.

          • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            An 8 switch relay, old Pi, and 8 hardware store outlets can be had for not much more. I did that and let PiKVM control my outlets directly.

            This is the back of my 10" rack before it was cleaned up. Lots of custom work on this that I’ll be posting a page on my site about when complete.

            @tal@lemmy.today in case you are interested

    • tychosmoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      If you do have the smart PSU and power management server you probably also went down the rabbit hole of scripting the power cycling, right? Maybe made that server hardened against power loss disk corruption so it can be run until UPS battery exhaustion.

      What if there is a power outage and NUT shuts everything down? Would be nice to have everything brought back up in an orderly way when power returns. Without manual intervention. But keeping you informed via logging and push notifications.