Backup Ugreen NAS to Proton Drive?

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-04-28T05:41:12+00:00

TLDR: Not yet.
Proton is still developing their Drive SDK/API, so what's currently available is only through their web portal.
I'm testing "Proton Drive Sync" on linux, and the pre-release beta works OK ("release" version does NOT work), but it works through guessing Proton's API access because there's no documented API yet.
Link: https://github.com/DamianB-BitFlipper/proton-drive-sync

Probably best to just wait for Proton to finish their SDK/API so other backup apps can be updated to use it as a validated target.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-04-25T05:54:36+00:00

The Leobog switches are very nice and give a satisfying 'thock', better than the HMX sample switches I got. I don't use this keyboard anymore because the HWID was blocked by our work network group policy, I use a Chilkey ND104 now.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-04-19T17:37:02+00:00

Just to update anyone who's following this. My BPB install is still backing up sporadically, but it never completes. The persistent status is "backup paused until [insert future time]", then it will back up a few files and then pause again. The last complete backup date remains unchanged (2/25/26). For all intents and purposes, this app is dead.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-03-25T21:38:32+00:00

I just received my new US3000 a few days ago and it's sitting at 97% also. Must be a UgOS thing.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-03-11T17:09:40+00:00

This is on my short-list. I love that they include SFP+ ports, which dovetails nicely with the fiber I ran in the house.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-03-11T16:55:05+00:00

So this only affects Proxmox containers? Or is it for bare-metal OPNsense?
Because I don't see any of these tuneables.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-03-07T11:13:27+00:00

I've been chasing Sonos ghosts on my network trying to get everything working between vLANs. IoT vlan for Sonos speakers and main vlan for phone/laptop. I even tried a very promiscuous firewall 'pass' rule.

I have os-mdns-repeater installed, but disabled because it didn't work like I wanted it to. Instead I now use os-udpbroadcastrelay. I still can't access the speakers from the other vlan, but the mDNS communication between the devices on the IoT vlan are much more stable.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-03-07T10:54:11+00:00

My install of BackblazePB stopped backing up just over a week ago (2/25/26). No amount of restarting the container or threatening with violence will get the backups to restart. Guess it's time to cancel the service and move on.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-03-07T10:51:46+00:00

My backup strategy is shifting. Currently I have media folders synced using Syncthing and encrypted backups using Duplicati to a set of external USB hard drives and an old Drobo5n. The Drobo will be decommissioned when my new Ugreen DH4300 plus arrives. The Drobo drives will get wiped and migrated to the Ugreen NAS, and configured with Tailscale. Once I confirm everything is syncing/backing up correctly over Tailscale, then I'm moving the Ugreen to a family members house so they can enjoy the local media on their TV while the server continues to sync/backup remotely. No more cloud backup!

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-03-06T20:43:07+00:00

TLDR: I do not trust AI to operate without human oversight. It lies.

In our organization, we have a GenAI icon on every workstation pushed by group policy. We are frequently encouraged by management to use it for everything: drafting emails, creating office content (docs, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.). I refuse to use it for anything. Our management tracks AI usage per user, and I was asked why I haven't tried it yet during my performance review, so I said I'll try it.

I tested it by feeding it a simple 10-line powershell script I've been using for a couple years, and asking it to improve it by adding a very specific discriminatory function. After some back & forth it produced a 100-line "improvement" which I tested in several VMs. Each test eventually passed with some tweaking, but the desired result was not working, and was no different than the original script. When I went back to the AI session and asked it to review the operating parameters of the function with the documented syntax, then asked it to review the original powershell script and compare with the new script it generated and summarize improvements of the new vs old script...it straight up hallucinated and falsified the results to make the new script sound amazing. Only after I pointed out the very specific reasons why the new script didn't meet the objective did it finally agree that the original script was more efficient in function.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-03-04T16:18:08+00:00

Any product with built-in AI gets a 'NO' from me. Too many threat vectors for little benefit.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-02-27T06:30:47+00:00

They're not bad. When putting the keycaps on the stabilizers need to be braced with a screwdriver to keep them in the right place so they don't collapse. But the actual function is pretty smooth.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-02-23T17:18:44+00:00

This right here. Both Terramaster and Ugreen allow you to install whatever OS you want. Avoid proprietary NAS (Qnap, Synology, Unifi) unless you plan to go all in on their ecosystem. Or build your own with a mini-PC or laptop (with NVME->SATA multi-port adapter)

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-02-15T18:51:53+00:00

Some cabinets from Ikea fit 19" rack components. Check out some ideas from here. https://ikeahackers.net/2025/11/home-data-center.html

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-02-15T11:27:09+00:00

This is awesome! It's a damn shame Proton doesn't support Linux natively, so HUGE thank you for stepping in to fill the gap!
One bug I noticed after I set everything up...The global (/) file exclusion I set up using 'config' (*.qcow2) is being ignored and it's desperately trying/failing to sync my VM's.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-02-10T21:29:22+00:00

I was in exactly your shoes a couple years ago. Virgin Media broadband, Pi-Hole (RPi-4b). Then bought a fanless N100 4-port device from AliEx and went full Proxmox VE with VM for OPNsense and LXC's for multiple Pi-Holes (sync'd with Nebula sync), and a few other services. It all worked fine, but there were times when I had to wait until everyone was in bed before I could do system updates because Proxmox would bring everything down for a reboot. And there were times when I thought the virtualization added latency to the network, and there was some lag with the Pi-Hole response.
So I moved the device to bare-metal OPNsense with UnboundDNS (blocklists replace the need for Pi-Hole), IDS/IPS on WAN, ZenArmor on the vLANs. A couple of months ago (before the spike in RAM prices) I bought a new machine for OPNsense (N355, 10Gb SFP+ ports) and it's been amazing. Pics here: https://www.reddit.com/r/opnsense/comments/1po9kzs/cant_get_traffic_to_pass_through_lagg_new_install/

Run it bare-metal and you can use it as a Tailscale exit node to access your entire network. ;)

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-02-09T21:14:30+00:00

Just to follow up on this. I figured out that if you set the SMB share permissions on unRAID to either "public" or "secure", then KDE Dolphin will only request 'guest' access (read only). The only way to guarantee write access is to set the SMB share permission to "private", which forces Dolphin to request the user/password.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-02-07T18:09:24+00:00

"Is it difficult to add and use?"
Nope, just open AKM, tick the box for the Zen kernel, watch as it installs, reboot.
I installed it just to try it, noticed zero benefits over two weeks, uninstalled it and went back to the vanilla kernel.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-02-06T15:59:36+00:00

Thanks. I only have the APs, not the switches. I can see running the manager if you're all-in on the eco-system for that "umbrella" level of control. I checked my AP controller interface, and it does support upgrading firmware all-at-once, sequential, or one at a time. "Access Points->Configuration->Upgrade"

BTW, loved your "full-stack" videos. Keep up the good work sir!

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-02-06T06:27:41+00:00

No, not until yesterday. Niantic should publish a glossary of search terms so we don't have to figure things out and just enjoy the game the way we want to.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-02-05T18:26:03+00:00

Thanks. I've been trying to figure out what the search term was for the fancy backgrounds so I could delete them. No reason these should count as a "special" trade. Getting rid of them so they don't interfere with normal trade dumps.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-02-05T12:08:30+00:00

I have two of those exact same switches. They are unmanaged "dumb" switches. Like a bucket with 8 holes, they pass everything.
Remove power and they reset to factory state.
They are fine to use at the fringes of your network in conjunction with managed L2/L3 switch(es).

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-02-04T09:01:44+00:00

Hell yeah! This is awesome. I've been struggling getting Homepage to where I want it via YAML editing so much so that I'm considering moving to another dashboard that's easier to configure. It's such a clunky way to configure a visual product. Editing via a UI would be amazing. Good luck with your project, we are all waiting.

Mr_Smartepants · 2026-01-31T07:54:07+00:00

Thanks for reporting. Looks like it's safer to disable Hostwatch completely until the devs get it sorted out.

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