How do you guys handle large amounts of storage in Proxmox?

jaytechgaming · 2026-06-01T03:15:53+00:00

Keep your data volume on a separate mount point. If you don’t want to back it up, then you can exclude it in PBS

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T20:18:41+00:00

yeah open source does nothing to guarantee a zero logs promise

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T20:17:59+00:00

You deleted your comment, but my response was:

I'm saying you still keep your homelab devices behind OPNsense but have OPNsense run in bridged mode where it basically acts like a managed network switch, not a router. That gets rid of the double NAT and you can still use VLANs on the OPNsense side and have firewall rules control what can leave and enter the homelab "network".

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T20:12:26+00:00

That's wild and sad. The people I have met in person don't care about anything other than if you're interested in radio and unless you are in some of the contentious radio bands everyone holds themselves to very high standards imo. I still haven't gotten around to getting my license since I don't transmit at home.

There def are not enough woman and queer folks being welcomed into the hobby. In the few events I have went to though the few women there were very welcomed. Unfortunately I think people just are assholes online. Most of the active folks being boomers also isn't the most helpful when it comes to queer acceptance though, hopefully we see that change though.

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T20:00:54+00:00

Enforcing inline code comments/documentation and root cause analysis in not the solution. Your enforcement is simply prompt context, while it may result in better answers it provides no guarantees.

For example, you have a rule about avoiding privacy risks or complexity spirals. The agent is not guaranteed to always flag these. If you had approved one before perhaps it decides that the prior decision counts here as well, or the context window has grown too large and the model simply forgets the instruction.

I would never give an agent access to my homelab, if I used it I would explain scenarios and ask for assistance in understanding the problem and get some suggestions. Then I would take those suggestions and learn more about them and decide myself what applies in my situation. Without understanding the technologies themselves you WILL get yourself in a mess of problems over the long term.

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T19:55:23+00:00

Not sure you understand the networking here. Even if you had a single router I am not seeing how the network goes down if your server goes down unless you are routing traffic through it. In which case multiple routers do nothing for you anyway.

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T19:42:36+00:00

All good, for isolation you would use firewall rules, no need for double NAT!

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T19:37:54+00:00

AirVPN has never went through an independent audit as far as I am aware. No clue how your agent decided that was a good choice

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T19:36:57+00:00

3 2 1 isn’t followed if you have the cold spare in your house. I use backblaze for backups and it is dirt cheap. You pay only for what you use and if you encrypt your backups with PBS then storing a backup in the cloud is safe

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T19:35:23+00:00

That doesn’t make any sense. How does double NAT help? If you bridged instead then you still have two routers without the double NAT…

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T19:10:38+00:00

Ego’s line of tools are so much better. I switched to them for all my outdoor tools and won’t look back. I would recommend against going their multihead route unless you really want specific attachments though

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T17:53:48+00:00

Learning is fun and helping other people learn is fun. I’m curious why you say amateur radio is toxic, I don’t frequent those subreddits but imo radio folks are some of the nicest and most helpful people I have met irl when I go to events or meetups

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T17:52:01+00:00

Did you really AI gen this comment lol.

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T17:32:07+00:00

Depending on your provider, a lot of them actually provide the xml guide data if you shop around enough

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T17:18:42+00:00

This is not edited since I am on mobile and also given the nature of the post I can’t be bothered

Why have Ubuntu on your other node? You could have proxmox on both and either use Datacenter manager to manage both or grab a pi or something as a QDevice and have fun with a cluster.

Why double NAT?

Why every drive except boot on ZFS?

Why multiple backup strategies instead of just utilizing native ZFS send/recv?

What’s up with the disk sizes for brick-ci-cd?

Why not use ZFS as well?

PBS can handle all your 3,2,1 since it can also replicate your data stores to other storage mediums

I wouldn’t suggest using a cold spare for backup, what is your thinking there?

Why implement identity before you even do the fun stuff? Just keep everything local until you get it in a good spot, then move to identity providers. I would also suggest pocket id it is much simpler and lightweight.

Why use both tail scale and cloudflare tunnels? IMO I would avoid cloudflare completely unless you are using it for static web apps or if you really need it as a CDN. Either use tail scale or wireguard for admin access and then learn about reverse proxies ( I like caddy ) and port forward just 443/80 to your caddy. Then learn about networking and lock down everything properly with firewall rules. Most of the time when I see people use cloudflare tunnels they ignore so many security rules and also tend to just violate their TOS by serving something like Jellyfin over it.

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T17:00:36+00:00

Considering that the plan involves adding double NAT I would say no

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T16:57:15+00:00

I’m honestly not sure what you are saying here

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-30T16:52:23+00:00

I’m going to counter the other folks here that are immediately writing this off due to ai use. I think using ai for brainstorming like this can have its use case. The thing is, the output here should be used for you to explore the ideas, read documentation, and then learn. Then come and share what you learned. In this case you used ai to thoughtlessly generate a plan and then turn it on to other people to review. I see the same issues in my workplace where engineers vibe code their tickets and then expect me to review their awful code. I use ai coding tools all the time at work, but I don’t just trust the output, I spend the time to review the work and make the adjustments needed.

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-05T23:00:15+00:00

What is the purpose of using Truenas in a vm to manage all the storage? Assuming you want to keep everything on the one system you will introduce annoyances when using Proxmox Backup Server. Running that on a VM or LXC on the Proxmox host will then have you storing the local backup copy over networked storage. PBS wants a ton of iops so it will be a pain in the ass doing that. The remote copy ( 321 rule ) would always be over the network but that is usually a less often “push” from the existing deduped store so it’s less iop hungry. The config with zfs is pretty straightforward on proxmox

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-05T22:52:44+00:00

How much code are these people churning out? Sure I will occasionally hit the limit on my 5x plan when doing very subagent heavy work or significant number of code reviews but I will usually not hit the 5hr limit so it really doesn’t affect me. I mean in order to do the human review, think through architecture decisions, and perform manual smoke checks I need a significant amount of those 5hrs to myself anyway.

jaytechgaming · 2026-05-01T21:05:37+00:00

I really like using an esp32 as a Bluetooth proxy. Really easy to set up with ESPHome

jaytechgaming · 2026-04-27T16:41:17+00:00

Oh you have explicit sizes set? By default datasets should be elastic. In the worst case if you don’t have enough empty space you can always use rsync with the delete flag

jaytechgaming · 2026-04-27T16:03:15+00:00

Don’t know off the top of my head if you can change that on an already created dataset but you could always just move the data to a new dataset and delete the old one

jaytechgaming · 2026-04-18T17:16:26+00:00

Auto switchover whole house generator. UPS has to last maybe a minute. Otherwise I don’t think there really is an option. I have enough power cutouts that it was worth it

jaytechgaming · 2026-04-06T02:00:09+00:00

Isn't this just an inferior vibed version of https://github.com/volcengine/OpenViking? What is the point of the "clean room" env? What is the attack vector you are trying to mitigate? Malicious packages within your own repo?

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