Be aware that doing it like this, the traffic from the VPS to your home will be unencrypted.

Yes this is where I first heard of mergerfs/SnapRAID. But I didn’t realize this guide wasn’t using any software on top of Proxmox. I’ll read again, thanks!

Thanks pull mode is exactly what I was looking for!

This is exactly what happened to me, but was able to contact my ISP to drop IPv6 support and get back my ports forwarding to work on my line

Indeed, I haven’t thought about the W/TB. This is definitely something I’ll to consider, thanks!

I have some files that won’t play on my AndroidTV, I thought transcoding is what I was missing

Oh? This is weird, I have disabled transcoding on my rpi and I have some files that won’t play or the subtitles won’t load. I’m playing from my local network on an AndroidTV. I thought this was a file format issue and that transcoding would solve the issue

Don’t I need mergerfs and snapraid with BTRFS?

Also it’s not clear what LXD/Incus replaces? Is it Promox or Promox + OMV?

Thanks I wasn’t sure if this was a possibility

I planned to share it with my family. As I won’t be the only user, this is not ideal. Besides I run automatic backup and planned to also store them in the NAS. So again if it’s off half the time, this is not ideal.

Thanks, this is really efficient. I now have good hopes that changing my PSU should bring me closer to this

Indeed, it wasn’t clear that it was how it worked. That seems better than the cache/mover system from Unraid.

Another point as to why I didn’t consider ZFS, is that it only works with disks having the same capacities. As I will be adding disks over time, I think I will be wasting disk space

Thanks, yes, I’m interested in the SSDs models!

Thanks, I’ll check ZFS again!

Thanks

If I have a NAS and a NUC, do I need to have a 10Gb network? I don’t have this right now, that’s why I was trying to build everything in one case.

Also do you know the power consumption of a NUC when idling?

Thanks. So If I take 5W a disk, I may have 20W just from the disks.

There are still 25W remaining. For a low power CPU that looks like a lot 😕

Thanks I’ll look into this!

On the N100, they say the max support is 16GB RAM. If you were looking for at least 32GB, it may not be an option anymore

Ok, this is good to know!

I have checked but I haven’t seen anything about power. By any chances, do you know in what category it may be?

I’m using an EVGA 500 W1

Unfortunately this is idling after boot. While booting it jumps to 70W and I haven’t seen it go below 45W idling…

I guess I’ll do this if I don’t find a way to reduce the power consumption

Thanks that would be cool. Also if you can tell me if this is a NUC or something larger.

I don’t know much about hardware. I used these suggestions: https://forums.serverbuilds.net/t/guide-nas-killer-6-0-ddr4-is-finally-cheap/13956

I built a NAS where I can put 6 HDDs, there are enough plugs on the PSU.

Do you think the PSU is the issue?

Yes definitely. This is just that it was my first time assembling a PC. I had a bit of a hard time and I am not in a hurry to disassemble it 😅

That may change in a couple of days thought

Thanks I’ll check this

Indeed, this seems to be the issue!

I’ve checked the PX-450 but it seems to be out of stock…

I’ll do more searches about PSU, thanks!

This is amazing, thank you!

And now this confirms that my current PSU is terrible…

Thanks, indeed, restic looks interesting!

For now I don’t have much use for the deduplication as every servers are hosting different data.

One drawback I can see is the memory usage. My raspberry only has 2GB I’m not sure if this is going to be an issue. Currently the data I need to back up are around 100GB.

With what I saw with me current HDDs I wouldn’t have though smaller HDD would be the most power efficient. And now I understand better why sometimes I read HDD can be more efficient than SSD.

Any brands/models you would recommend?

Thanks for reporting!

Thanks for the clarification about the repositories!

If I understood correctly, I should run a cron on the VPN that dumps the DB and encrypts it. Then borg only has to get the dump and archives it.

Also what is the reason not to use the mariadb tool provided by borg? It looked interesting because of the data stream.

I was talking about this: https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/backup-your-databases/

If you're using MariaDB, use the MariaDB database hook instead of mysql_databases: as the MariaDB hook calls native MariaDB commands instead of the deprecated MySQL ones.

But I guess this is basically a mysql dump reading from stdin

I see, thank you.

For now I went with the cron dump and the rclone. The only issue with this setup is that I can’t monitor the database dump easily. Thus, if the dump fails, borg will just backup the failed dump…

As for the VPS, of course, ideally, it’s secured enough. But as it is said, if the server is exposed to the Internet you cannot be sure of anything…

Thanks, I didn’t know about handbrake, maybe it can solve my issues if I transcode before playing the media

Can you share what hardware you are using to run this?

Do I need a 10Gb network if separate the two systems?

Indeed, this sounds nice! I think 30W to power the server + 6HDD is really fine. I didn’t understand what parts you used from your old laptops?

Indeed, this looks really good! The only issue is that there are slots for only two HDDs. But looking at the cheap price I may go with something like this and look for a NAS once my disks are full!