• curbstickle_lw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    I’m going to go ahead and lock this for now.

    @DanKhramov@lemmy.world all of your replies read like an LLM, and are very inconsistent about what you’re discussing/asking about.

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    https://lemmy.world/post/1860512

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    2 months

    I just have it copied to an external HDD and also daily sync to cloud B2 storage (encrypted) while the main copy of the media lives on the SSD.

    I never have to touch it unless there’s a failure… I should have a versioned backup on the HDD in that case. Unless there’s a fire or something and both are destroyed in which case I should be able to pull them from the cloud storage.

    It’s all just automated cron jobs requires no effort on my part beyond setting it up.

  • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2 months

    I have raid 5 to protect against hdd failure and I run syncthing and duplicati on immich and other folders for on premise and remote backups.

    What I’m curious about is how people make stuff like Immich and nextcloud available to other people outside their network? When I need to access something remotely I vpn in. I know I don’t have the knowledge to have my server connected to the open internet in a secure manner. I don’t think someone like family members would ever want to bother with anything other than a link and a login page so only me and my partner use these services.

    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2 months

      I have my Immich instance setup with an nginx proxy for security and ssl, and that’s exposed to the internet. I have a domain for my personal website, so I just put up my Immich instance at a subdomain of that. I can now make public share links I can just copy and paste into a group chat. I haven’t added any other users yet but I’d I wanted to all they’d need to do is login via email/password.

      This is an officially supported kind of setup for Immich, so I would consider it secure: https://docs.immich.app/administration/reverse-proxy/

      I don’t have all of my homelab services exposed publicly though; I VPN in for those.

      General tips for exposing a server to the internet:

      • only expose the ports you need for services you intend to be accessible. Use a firewall and/or your router’s port forwarding settings to enable only what you need, with blocking as a default.
      • update all software regularly
      • only expose programs that are built to be exposed. For example, if you make a Flask website, they will warn you several times not to expose it directly, but to proxy it through something like nginx
  • femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2 months

    I use duplicity daily to B2 and that’s the only backup I have. https://duplicacy.com/ For heat I have it in the open basement but I also have 10 14tb HDDs so that’s where it comes from.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzbot accountEnglish
    2 months

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol for email
    LTT Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel
    LXC Linux Containers
    RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
    nginx Popular HTTP server

    9 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.

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  • IpsumLauren@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Apart from backups, a nice RAID 1 setup will keep the service running during a disk failure and it is easy to repair when it happens, just change the faulty disk and re-sync. Some also use those as backups, by changing a spare disk regularly and keeping it somewhere safe.

    If you do backups, don’t forget to test them. You don’t want to find yourself trying to restore some files and find out that they’re corrupt or you’re missing the encryption key. I remember trying to restore a database only to discover that the supposed production backups where from the testing environment.

    For the noise: get a fanless PC and SSD storage. As these are virtually silent, you can keep the server somewhere open so it doesn’t overheat.

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    I have immich running on a server that’s under the stairs. It’s a bit loud, but it’s out of the way. I can only access it over SSH.

    For backups, I wrote a shell script to do it. I just plug in my external drive, run the script, and unplug it again. The next day I’ll swap the drive for one that I keep in my workplace locker. There’s also a mirrored RAID for the server. That’s 4 copies in total.

    Yeah, it’s still a bit of work. I couldn’t imagine teaching anyone else how to do it.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2 months

    Preaching backups to our clients at work…
    It’s easier to pull teeth than to get them to spend money on their future (Server dead = No income and several lawsuits for negligence)

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2 months

    To reduce the heat, look for a newer, more energy efficient computer. The i5-6500 is a 10 year old, 65 watt CPU. That’s probably not the best to run in a small closet without ventilation.

    • Andres@social.ridetrans.it
      2 months

      @cmnybo @DanKhramov Doesn’t even need to be a newer CPU. I’m running Immich on an ancient dell laptop w/ i3-4010U. Not efficient in terms of CPU-per-watt these days, but that i3 chip isn’t putting out much heat either.

      As far as backups - snapraid sync runs nightly to ensure that accidental deletions or bitrot is caught. Restic backs up to a drive on a separate machine (in a different room of my house). I still need an off-site backup, but the hard drive shortages messed up my plans there…

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2 months

        I personally wouldn’t go to old as something somewhat newer will use less power due to better performance.

  • monkeyman512@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    I run Truenas scale on home server and on the off-site backup at a friend’s house. ZFS Snapshots get synced to backup server nightly. The snapshot system is nice because it only needs to send what has changed since the last synced snapshot.

    Now that I have it setup it is mostly no effort on my part. But the initial ramp up to understand Truenas and ZFS was a second job for a few weeks. HexOS may be good choice if you want the power of Truenas but the handholding of setup wizards and such. But HexOS is currently $200 and Truenas is free. Pay in time or dollars.