Posts tagged #nas on Dynamo Geeks: 5 posts from the community, most useful first.
After greybeard_graham's tweet ("a backup you have never restored is a rumour") I feel personally attacked, so last weekend I finally do a real restore test. Not "I see the files in B2", a real restore to a new VM, start the apps, use them. Result: 3 OK, 2 broken. Nothing was lost because the originals are fine, but if the NAS died last month, I would lose all my scanned documents. Here is the story. The setup…
Rainy season in HCMC. Some weeks we have 2-3 power cuts, 10 to 40 minutes. My APC Back-UPS 1000VA can run my 186W lab for ~18 minutes (UPS says), so for long cuts everything must shut down cleanly by itself, even when I am at work or asleep. This is how I do it with NUT (Network UPS Tools). Plan The UPS USB cable goes to one machine. That machine is the NUT primary (server) All other machines are secondary (clients)…
Every few weeks someone on here tells me the cloud is cheaper. Sometimes it is. So I sat down with a pot of tea, my power bill, and my receipts, and worked it out properly. I have included the numbers that do not flatter me, because a comparison that only counts one side is an advertisement. What is in the spare room One Dell OptiPlex 7060 Micro, i5-8500T, 32GB, running Proxmox. About a dozen containers and two…
Last month one of my 8TB drives die at 2am on a Tuesday. Nothing was lost, because ZFS mirror, but I learn a few things that I want to write down before I forget. The pool TrueNAS SCALE, one pool called tank , 4 × 8TB in two mirror vdevs . Each mirror is one WD Red Plus + one Seagate IronWolf, bought from different shops in different months, so they are not from the same batch. TrueNAS does this in the UI, but this…
Many people ask in my Self Hosted topic "what do you actually run", so here is the full tour. It start 4 years ago as one old laptop under the TV. Now it is a 12U wall cabinet in the corner of our spare room, and my wife call it "the heater". Hardware pve1, pve2: Lenovo M720q Tiny, i5-8500T, 32GB RAM, 1TB NVMe each. Bought second hand, very good value pve3: HP EliteDesk 800 G4 Mini, i5-8500T, 32GB, 512GB NVMe NAS:…
