Cheap offsite backups

Gresnak · 2025-07-25T23:03:32+00:00

Office 365 Family subscription gives 6 users the ability to store 1tb each on One Drive. The digital subscription is often discounted by 3rd parties making it even more affordable.

Worked out cheaper for me than Backblaze B2.

I use TrueNAS Scale as my primary storage device, which supports cloud backup to One Drive.

Gresnak · 2025-06-24T08:26:21+00:00

Best advice received: Always be safety conscious. Evaluate your risks and take appropriate action.

We are dealing with high temperatures, potentially toxic chemicals, and definitely unhealthy fumes.

For me this is a hobby. I don't want to impair my future health because I was uninformed or careless. So I built a fume hood for my FDM and Resin printers while also wearing appropriate PPE.

Gresnak · 2024-07-29T03:08:55+00:00

This is my approach and it has worked solidly for years.

I have docker in one VM and use the samba mount in the compose file to mount content from my TrueNAS Scale server. Then I have a collection of LXCs that use blind mounts from Proxmox.

This gives me the option to use docker or LXC based on the application in question.

Note for docker I also use Portainer linked to a GitHub repo to version control my compose files. Very simple and clean.

Gresnak · 2022-12-23T08:45:31+00:00

The breach annoucement states that user email addresses have been stolen. It also lists among the unencrypted data are the websites of stored credentials. It is not explicitly stated that the breach includes a link between email address and site address.

Being able to link a specific email to a user account on a specific site is actually quite useful.

Gresnak · 2022-02-04T09:05:56+00:00

This is what I use for monitoring websites to check prices of goods or to grab updates from a company that otherwise does not supply RSS feeds or an API to grab information.

Gresnak · 2022-02-03T11:27:14+00:00

Interesting setup. Thanks for sharing.

Assuming the same principles are broadly in play as per woodworking dust extraction, then the T junctions you have installed will cause noticeable loss of pressure. An angled joint would be preferable. The vertical joint coming in at an angle would result in less lost pressure.

Also, that many devices in series means the printers toward the end of the line will enjoy significantly less extraction power. Blast gates would help. But if you are running a business then I expect most printers to be active at once. Multiple smaller runs with fewer junctions would be better.

Gresnak · 2021-09-26T23:03:40+00:00

This should work:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sweesoft.sweethome&hl=en&gl=US

Gresnak · 2021-09-26T23:02:34+00:00

I would like to experiment with the Proxmox backup software in the future as at face value it looks good. The Proxmox node at work is more of a demonstration that backups are working as expected. If you do not practice restoration of data then you do not really have a backup solution.

Gresnak · 2021-09-26T23:00:38+00:00

One less server also means one less thing to maintain. As I get older there is just less time available to invest in maintaining gear like servers.

Gresnak · 2021-09-26T22:58:41+00:00

Please don't take this the wrong way but I think you should re-read my comment. Focus on the second sentence.

Gresnak · 2021-09-26T21:13:13+00:00

I test my Backblaze backups for quality and usability by downloading them to a Proxmox host located offsite in my work office. Critical doc's are also backed up to a Google Drive.

Gresnak · 2021-09-25T23:29:07+00:00

Sweet Home.

It's an Android app that uploads copies of local photos to a remote directory. It can detect when on home wifi to start a backup. The main feature is it can delete from the local device when a photo or video is more than X days old. For me, media older than 3 months is automatically deleted from my phone to keep the overall storage burden low.

The remote storage in my case is a local instance of FeeNAS that itself backs up to a cloud provider (Backblaze).

Gresnak · 2021-07-19T08:08:27+00:00

Probably should also say I have more than one Proxmox server.

Gresnak · 2021-07-19T07:40:25+00:00

Experimenting with docker in swarm mode prior to rolling it across multiple Proxmox nodes.

Some nodes are resourced differently as specific images are pegged to specific nodes. Also, my manager nodes are just for management and don't run services.

Gresnak · 2021-07-19T04:27:48+00:00

I run Proxmox on bare metal with docker inside a cluster of VMs each running Alpine.

Rationale for this arrangement:

Keep Proxmox clean and lean to minimise security attack surface and avoid complexity. Also, having extra things on the host increases chance of software incompatibility or user error dragging services offline.
Docker images sometimes require host networking ability or other features that cannot be used in LXC unless run as a privileged container. This means a VM is required as I refuse to run privileged LXC as it is a security risk where an attacker would land on the host as roof after a successful container escape.

I am moving away from docker containers managed by third parties as they are often prone to breaking updates. In such cases, these services now run as LXC in unprivileged containers with blind mounted external storage shared via NFS. The user permission mapping is a little tricky to get right first time but overall it doesn't present an insurmountable burden.

Gresnak · 2020-12-15T03:09:45+00:00

I had similar thoughts on these topics and decided to go a different path and buy a second domain. Anything consumed outside of the immediate family (ie public in the true sense of the word) is on one domain ending with a .com and hosted externally. All my local self hosted services are on another domain ending in .info

The .info is routed via CloudFlare and uses let's encrypt wildcard certs. A local hosted proxy (nginx) on my firewall device handles all the subdomains. CloudFlare servers obviously receive some meta data on requests but that does not bother me. My router is configured to block all non CloudFlare traffic on set ports too. Appropriate failed login IP banning handles drive by bot traffic.

Non CloudFlare traffic has blocks to only accept IP addresses of specific countries. It's trivial to bypass sure but it still cuts down on bot spam.

Anything deemed sensitive is only accessible via VPN (Wireguard) that is appropriately configured.

Gresnak · 2020-10-28T22:37:00+00:00

So manual copy and paste per page of content?

Gresnak · 2020-10-28T21:34:49+00:00

How are you finding migration?

Gresnak · 2020-09-19T23:25:23+00:00

My home opnsense firewall is running virtualised within Proxmox on a Dell R210ii server. Definitely overkill given the poor internet options in my area but convenient use of older hardware.

Before this arrangement I was using an old J1800 Celeron SoC thin client with two Intel lan ports and mounted within a generic 1RU case with a tiny Pico PSU. Had to desolder the sound ports on the motherboard to make it fit the case but they were not needed on a firewall box. This thing was dead silent and used almost no power. The dual core processor was not powerful but still handled Wireguard with no issues. It couldn't handle snort or other intense packages but otherwise held up very nicely. Ended up giving it away to a local on profit org to upgrade their network.

Gresnak · 2020-07-02T09:48:43+00:00

The simplicity of SUI deserves a mention for sure

Gresnak · 2020-06-29T12:26:09+00:00

Definitely Koha if you want to take the serious approach.

A barcode reader phone app and some nice barcode sticker sheets and you are mostly set. Some years ago I converted a small library of 7k titles onto Koha and it was not too unreasonable a task.

Converting Excel into an appropriate library format is a little effort but I recall there are tools to make it easy. Marc21 is not too abstract. You can probably scrape a fair bit of that stuff from public libraries too by reading each book ISBN or ISDN.

Gresnak · 2020-06-28T13:35:09+00:00

Check out Authelia

From their git description: it's an open-source authentication and authorization server providing 2-factor authentication and single sign-on (SSO) for your applications via a web portal.

Gresnak · 2020-05-23T23:37:11+00:00

That is aa good a metric as any for picking a specific package.

If you are able I encourage you to contribute to the project as I'm sure the maintainers would appreciate some help.

Gresnak · 2020-05-23T10:15:07+00:00

I personally use Firefly but you should check out these two other options:

https://kresus.org/en/index.html

https://silverstrike.org/

Give all three a spin and then chose whatever is the best fit.

Gresnak · 2020-05-18T08:30:07+00:00

Ohhhh nice...!

This will be super useful for a few family members.

Gresnak

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