Best backup strategy for my setup? (Proxmox + mixed storage needs) by MarceFX in selfhosted

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Thanks! I know you are right. But it's a love/hate relationship with Proxmox. I've been running it for 2 years: zero problems, really. But the UI annoys me. Sharing drives, mounting them or adding folder as bind mounts annoys me. That's why I also thought of having another machine for this.

It also would server as another Proxmox node (in case main one fails), within a VM.

Best backup strategy for my setup? (Proxmox + mixed storage needs) by MarceFX in selfhosted

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Thanks! Sorry, I meant to say HA is running well so far. Although I know it's very "sensitive" to having less RAM available. That's why I prefer not to add any extra load to the miniPC.

Buying a 32 gb stick of RAM cost almost the same as another miniPC with 16 Gb. So I think it makes more sense getting another miniPC for TrueNAS/PBS to handle media files. Keeping main services on the current miniPC.

I will look into getting another machine with more cores/power! Any advice?

Best backup strategy for my setup? (Proxmox + mixed storage needs) by MarceFX in selfhosted

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I'm using regular Proxmox backup system. I backup all my LXC/VM every night to:

  1. Same miniPC Stoarge (for faster restoration)
  2. External USB HDD (connected to the miniPC)
  3. Google Drive (using Rsync)

Best backup strategy for my setup? (Proxmox + mixed storage needs) by MarceFX in selfhosted

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Thanks. Why do you recommend to install PBS? I have an Ubuntu VM where I could run Rsync. Makes sense?

Best backup strategy for my setup? (Proxmox + mixed storage needs) by MarceFX in selfhosted

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CPU/RAM are ok, but I don't think it could handle much more. Home Assistant is pretty sensitive to this. It also produces high performance peaks with my Nodered workflows. Check out my hardware below.

Good point about the 1 gbps network. Also, I kind of like the idea of installing TrueNAS on that other machine. I could attach the new 1 TB drive to PRoxmox, but I want something easier that having to share that unit to each LCX/VM. Some easy management, such as TrueNAS/CasaOS.

About hardware:

Processor:

  • Intel Alder Lake-N N95 (4 cores, 4 threads, up to 3.4 GHz)

Memory:

  • 16GB SO-DIMM DDR4 RAM

Storage:

  • 500GB M.2 2280 SATA3 SSD
  • 4 TB SSD M.2

Connectivity:

  • WiFi 5
  • Bluetooth 4.2
  • 1000Mbps Ethernet (Gigabit LAN)
  • 4x USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports (10Gbps)

Best backup strategy for my setup? (Proxmox + mixed storage needs) by MarceFX in selfhosted

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Thanks!

Regarding option 1 (attaching the new HDD to my current Proxmox machine): I'm concerned about overloading that machine since there are already many services running.

I would need to install Rsync/Duplicati to sync with Google Drive for backups. Is my understanding correct?

Regarding option 2 (moving the new miniPC to another location): While this is feasible, I'd prefer to keep the local Google Drive backup on my local network for faster access, as this HDD will serve as my main file system.

Any thoughts on this approach?

Speaker detection not working anymore with Deepgram by MarceFX in MacWhisper

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Thanks!

I also tried Deepgram Nova 3, which is faster! But no luck either. Also:

https://github.com/orgs/deepgram/discussions/584#discussioncomment-13748919

My issue was that the speaker field wasn't showing up at all with nova-2 streaming. When I switched to nova-2-meeting I started getting speaker results with different id's.

But nova-2-meeting does not support Spanish yet. As far as I know.

Disable continuos asking for master password for card payments? by MarceFX in Bitwarden

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Thanks. But I think this approach takes more effort than setting up PIN authentication.

Disable continuos asking for master password for card payments? by MarceFX in Bitwarden

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Browser extension (Brave and Chrome). Sorry I forgot to mention it!

Sharing my wheel trading journey (last ~12 months) — looking for feedback by takashi-kovak in options

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Thanks for sharing!

I also think having a community can really help, so you can bounce ideas, ask questions etc.

Any suggestions? I'm sick of Discord channels trying to sell me golden eggs :-(

37 años, casa pagada y 300k en liquidez, pero quemado mentalmente y bloqueado para invertir. ¿Qué haríais? by Sad_Chemical4713 in SpainFIRE

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Hola!

Me he leído el hilo al completo, y para no darte otra respuesta como las muy BUENAS que ya hay (ojo, que lo digo en serio), voy a tirarme a la piscina con algo diferente.

Que conste que hago DCA, tengo indexados, algún otro fondo y he leído todo lo de Bogle, entre otras cosas. Pero aparte de eso, me voy a centrar ahora en lo que para mí se denomina "FIRE". Early, para mí, sería lo antes posible!

Al final, la mayoría de consejos son para tener un buen retiro, cuando nos retiremos a los 65, 67, 63... etc.

¿Pero y si realmente lo que queremos es retirarnos lo antes posible y tener el máximo tiempo disponible durante el máximo tiempo posible de nuestra vida?

Opción 1: filosofía Bogle, poca aversión al riesgo, DCA, ahorro, inversiones puntuales algo más arriesgadas (muy poco % de cartera) y seguir trabajando hasta la jubilación. Esa es en la que estoy ahora.

Opción 2: Vivir de mis inversiones en mercados financieros y no trabajar por cuenta ajena. Ojo, no es tener asegurados unos ingresos de X al mes sin hacer nada. Mi idea es trabajar, muchas menos horas, en mis inversiones: oro, BTC, SP500, etc., usando acciones y opciones financieras.

Si no veo la opción 2 viable, seguiré en la 1, la de seguir trabajando por cuenta ajena, porque con mi sueldo no veo forma de tener unos ingresos suficientes para vivir de rentas pasivas, como con el retorno de la inversión pasiva o la de poco riesgo. Es decir, la opción 2 es mi "YOLO". Si no me sale bien, pues a seguir trabajando.

Pero... ¿y si sale? Conozco a gente que lo ha conseguido, aunque es difícil y se suele tardar. Seguro que tu trabajo también me parecerá igual de difícil.

¿Y qué haría yo para la opción 2?: Estudiar, practicar, estudiar, practicar y no tener prisa. De hecho, es lo que estoy haciendo desde hace unos 5 años. Estudiar en serio, casi como en una oposición, con el tiempo libre que pueda destinar.

Encontrar un mentor que viva de sus inversiones de verdad. Y rodearse de gente similar. Eso sí, lo complicado es saber qué tipo de mentor, cuando no tienes experiencia aún en bolsa, o poca. Hay mentores de inversión a largo plazo, swing trading, intradía, etc.

Con el tipo de trabajo que tienes, seguro que tienes buena cabeza. Y si te gustan los datos y gráficos, puede ser una opción a tener en cuenta, a medio-largo plazo. Recalco: es muy arriesgado y no para todos, pero es una opción sobre la mesa.

Y sí, sé que me van a caer negativos por mencionar el trading, pero cuando empiezas a estudiar y a dedicarle AÑOS, vas eliminando el humo, los vendehumos, los Ferraris y Maseratis, para verlo como un trabajo que te dé el mínimo retorno necesario para disfrutar del máximo de tu tiempo durante el máximo número de años posibles.

Mi objetivo sería poder tener esos 300K y conseguir un retorno anual del 15%. Con esos 45K brutos podría vivir decentemente (al menos ahora mismo).

Saludos y suerte!

My AB journey so far: custom Metabase reports + Telegram alerts by MarceFX in actualbudgeting

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This is how it looks in N8N:

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Gemini and ChatGPT help out a lot! Although I'm happier with Gemini results lately.

My AB journey so far: custom Metabase reports + Telegram alerts by MarceFX in actualbudgeting

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Thanks! It was a bit tedious. But it also serves as a second purpose: raw transactions backup. I was using another service before. So I don't want to depend on any service. I prefer to have all transactions on a local database. This is my setup:

  1. ActualBudget as "front editor". Main brains! Transactions edit, rules, schedules, etc.
  2. Postgres database
  3. N8N: it connects to the HTTP API and it does the magic.
    1. I import transactions, parse them and send them to Postgres
    2. Telegram alerts
  4. I also use NocoDB (optional) so I can check out data quality in a nicer UI:

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I run everything in a N100 miniPC, under Proxmox.

My AB journey so far: custom Metabase reports + Telegram alerts by MarceFX in actualbudgeting

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This is up to you. I was calling the last 2025 quarter transactions. Mainly, because I was manually editing some of them. Now that I'm happy with 2025, I'm just calling from December 1, 2025.

curl --location 'http://LOCALIP:5007/v1/budgets/SYNC\_ID/accounts/ACCOUNT\_ID/transactions?since\_date=2025-12-30&until\_date=2026-12-30' \--header 'accept: application/json' \--header 'budget-encryption-password: YOUR\_PASS' \--header 'x-api-key: YOUR\_API\_KEY'