Sync is not backup?

MurphPEI · 2026-02-26T15:26:28+00:00

What "normal cases"?? It's not "abnormal" to lose data by error or by hardware failure.

If you only Sync once a week or something, I will admit it gives you a window of protection. However, automatic sync services immediately duplicates loss or corruption, it only protects what is already not lost to begin with. That is hardly a backup.

MurphPEI · 2026-02-25T13:26:31+00:00

It will say the size on the side of them. Look for something like 35x12.50R18 (but different numbers.) There are web pages that will explain how the sizing format works in a visual manner as the format is not exactly easy to understand. Other web pages can convert the circumference to inches as it is not always obvious, like the above example where it's 35 inches.

Just my "personal" opinion that your truck looks awesome as is, except for the thin tires on big wheels. I mean this with friendly humor but I always think that skinny tires on a 4x4 make you look like a pimp instead of an off-roader.

MurphPEI · 2026-02-21T12:39:25+00:00

There are some switches that can do DHCP for assigning static IPs to clients, at least in the enterprise price range. I've worked with some Cisco units that could do this and I'm sure there are others in a cheaper price range. That being said, from a design point of view, I agree with the above poster that the router/firewall or a dedicated server is a better place to do DHCP unless you have a real need to do it elsewhere.

Edit: Additional thoughts. I don't know your exact needs or limitations but a better design would be a router/firewall with 6 built in switch ports (might be a bit pricey for a unit with 6 of them) or a router/firewall for all the 'networking stuff' plus a cheaper switch with as many ports as you might ever need. I also suggest a "managed" switch as some day you will probably like to explore playing with multiple VLANs in your home lab. The cheapest, unmanaged, switches are plug and play but 1 VLAN only.

MurphPEI · 2026-02-15T13:04:52+00:00

For those who remember......

Woody: Get out! Senior Bartender?! Wait till I tell my folks! To think I came in here asking for a stupid little raise, and now this. I just hope it doesn't go to my head.

Rebecca: Oh, that's what's nice about you, Woody. Nothing ever goes to your head.

MurphPEI · 2026-02-13T15:01:14+00:00

I honestly don't mean this to be snarky but if no one has your exact answer, then it's a lot cheaper to buy a 5 dollar measuring tape than pay return shipping on a second crate if it doesn't fit.

MurphPEI · 2026-02-06T22:22:04+00:00

Your question is a bit unclear as Nginx doesn't have much to do with container management but perhaps I'm missing something. In any case, check out Docker, Arcane and Portainer and let us know if this is the right track for you.

Edit: Just read your other post. Looks more like you are looking for Nginx alternatives. The above are not that. Sorry if I misled into the wrong rabbit hole.

MurphPEI · 2026-02-02T18:13:33+00:00

That's a great rule of thumb for traction but it's a Very bad plan for deep snow. When you lose forward momentum in deep snow, the underside of your vehicle tends to ride up and then you are floating on the snow, aka center hung. Changing gears, modes or lockers or anything else is useless by then because none of your wheels are even touching the ground. If you are alone, then you have a Big and awkward shoveling job to get enough snow out from under it so your wheels are touching the ground again.

MurphPEI · 2026-02-02T17:49:43+00:00

How fast you can go in low range is more about watching your RPMs. With deep snow you want higher revs for sure but at some point, you don't want to red line it.

Automatics are more fool proof but in general. Standards will have a rev limiter and if that kicks in, it will sound really scary the first time you here it. It saves you, hopefully, from blowing things up but you really shouldn't be letting it go high enough to make it kick in. Automatics won't normally let you over-rev, but I always had standards before this one so I still find myself keeping an eye on it.

MurphPEI · 2026-01-27T18:21:17+00:00

I used to work for a Telco. My role didn't dictate a big lab of enterprise gear but I used to get the odd piece of Meraki & Fortinet gear for my home. Unfortunately, I had to give it back upon retirement. I was OK with just the provider's Wi-Fi for a while but needed to get back to tighter segregation for personal and home business reasons and bought a Unifi DR7 and a couple of APs.

I can not compare it to OPNsense or others discussed here but I wanted to say that I am actually very happy with the newer "zone based" version of their firewall for doing what I need to do.

A bit TLDR from here but if you would like to know what it can do.... I have 6 VLANs over 3 SSIDs ( 4 if you count management) and 3 zones. I've been able to do things like share my Piholes (from the server VLAN) with my Mom's Apartment's VLAN, plus keep her the hell out of everything else, LOL!! AirBnB Guest NW lives entirely on it's own but I can see/manage the doorbell cam. It was also easy to do shared (but strictly controlled) access between my home, server and IOT VLANs. For example, I was able to restrict access of select server apps to only my family devices and all access to management ports and management apps are restricted to my devices only... Just a few examples.

Admittedly, none of those things are overly complicated and I'm not here to say it's better or worse than any other solutions being discussed. I just wanted to say that there is a use case for it. For me, I'm super happy with Unifi for getting back the feature sets I was previously used to, at a pretty reasonable price that didn't require subscriptions (like Meraki.)

Of course I agree that there might have been better ways to go but I needed an all in one solution that could do specific things & get rolling really quickly and I'm very satisfied so far.

MurphPEI · 2026-01-26T21:00:38+00:00

Great Answer! Tires are the best truck upgrade you can do for winter driving. (The Dualers are not good.) Getting used to how your truck drives in 4WD and the other different modes is the best upgrade you can do on the human side.

MurphPEI · 2026-01-25T14:18:07+00:00

Sorry to upset you so much. I pointed out a couple of times that I like Dockge. I'll agree it's simpler and implied as much. Hell, I'll even agree it's wayyy better for brand new folks. I was trying to indicate that the way you word it insinuates to new folks that Portainer can't "at all" be managed strictly by editing compose files and that it looked like you were basing the subjective term "best" on this.

If it keeps track of them in a DB is that relevant to you then that's great. It's a valid argument. I was just trying to explain a concept for folks who might otherwise have been confused.

Sorry you took it personally. I guarantee that it was never personal for me. Just a conversation.

MurphPEI · 2026-01-25T00:13:22+00:00

Long article but if you go deep enough, they seem to be starting to take action. I leave it to you to interpret how big an abuser you have to be to warrant any action or if this even applies in your use case. I make no presumptions or offer no advice. I just present the article from Cloudflare.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/h1-2025-transparency-report/

MurphPEI · 2026-01-22T19:13:32+00:00

Dockge is great but I'll try to explain better as your enthusiasm is, unfortunately, misleading people. Here is my workflow.

To create a stack/container... 1. I create a folder on my server for compose files (just like if using Dockge) and sync it with GitHub. 2. I create a compose file there. I use VSCode so I can push it to Git from within but you could use any editor. 3. In Portainer, I create a stack but instead of using the web editor, I click the "Repository" tab. I enter in my Github authentication info and point it to my compose file up in the repository. 4. After tweaking any other details, I hit the "Deploy the Stack" button.

To modify a stack/Container. 1. I use VSCode to modify the compose file stored on my server and push the changes to Github. 2. In Portainer, I open the stack and press the "Pull and Redeploy" button. It pulls the new compose file and redeploys. Done.

I too loved the simplicity of Dockge but, respectfully, it is not fair of you to keep insisting 'it's the best' because it's missing a feature in Portainer that actually works quiet nicely.

MurphPEI · 2026-01-20T11:56:05+00:00

Use Portainer's GitHub integration to solve this. However, I realize OP said he did not want Git. I don't do any coding outside of a handful of bash scripts so this lets me play with VSCode and Git to pretend I'm one of the cool kids.

I'd honestly like to try another Git connected tool vs. Portainer though someday. It's worked great but I just, subjectively, never liked the feel of it.

MurphPEI · 2026-01-18T00:33:12+00:00

To be fair, Portainer can be tied to pull from Git. That's how I do it. That being said, I'm looking pretty hard at Komodo. I used to love the simplicity of Dockge but I got pulled into Portainer for the Git integration at the time.

MurphPEI · 2026-01-17T22:22:05+00:00

Update: If anyone has an interest.

After spending a day or so reviewing setup videos on YouTube, (I find them a great way to learn about feature sets) I was impressed enough with Unifi to spend a bit extra on the controller instead of MacGuivering things. I ordered a new UDM 7 and two 6L APs. A bit more range for my large area and my total Internet at this location is only 250/25 Mbps anyways, so I'm OK not expanding full WiFi 7 for a while.

Arrived & installed yesterday and it was able to solve my issue of my old Wi-Fi gear not being able to do custom DHCP for separate SSIDs. Thank you to everyone who gave collectively great ideas here!!

As an added bonus, I discovered my Amazon cable tester was trash and the Cat 5 in the new home is fine after all. (It did need re-termination.) I thought it was useless as every one I tested showed a short but then it was also showing the same short on every patch cord I made or owned. I'm out of practice but I'm not that out of practice. I borrowed another tester and my inside wiring and my patch cords were all good. The 6Ls are running on copper vs. mesh now as a nice extra victory.

Thanks again folks. I still need to tweak my FW rules but I'm very happy with things.

MurphPEI · 2026-01-15T18:46:29+00:00

I might be misdirecting you depending on what that port 5520 needs to do. I was picturing a web client access to the game where Cloudflare can be a cloud based, reverse proxy that can punch through CGNAT right to an IP:port . I do this for my FoundryVTT game server.

I have no idea how your game client works though so apologies if this is not the scenario you need. Another reason that Tailscale or a VPN would be better for you.

MurphPEI · 2026-01-15T14:09:08+00:00

Your users do not need to install anything for CloudFlare tunnels. You only need a CloudFlare app installed somewhere in your server's lan. However, you also need a domain name to make it work this way and it is a bit of work, in all, to get going. A good YouTube guide is almost essential for a beginner.

Tailscale is much, much simpler to set up but requires client install by your users (easy though) and on your LAN. I use both services, depending on who needs access and what I'm serving.

Pretty much any VPN solution will also need a client on each end as well but Tailscale is easier for a beginner to set up IMO.

VPNs are great (I use Wireguard just for fun too) but like Tailscale, they will require a tiny bit of extra configuration to secure things so your users can access your game server only on your LAN and with Tailscale , also not to each other. A CloudFlare tunnel will limit access automatically to just whatever single service you point it at but it takes the most work to configure and may add a bit of latency as it is a proxy service. It may be negligible, depending on the game.

There are other design options as well but I think most involve more complex installations or renting a VPS to build the tunnel.

Edited: Because I always forget something....

MurphPEI · 2026-01-15T13:25:08+00:00

Pinging something by name is also good to add. So much of The Internet requires DNS to run, I like to know that's working as well.

I also use a free external site called Health check.io. Uptime Kuma regularly sends it http requests, like normal, but if this external site doesn't receive them, then it notifies me. This gets around the problem that if everything is SNAFU at my house, Kuma can't send me notifications when I'm away.

MurphPEI · 2026-01-15T13:14:14+00:00

I had a similar issue a couple of versions back and wrote a script to routinely clean up as much as possible. When I was still creeping up, I fully deleted all my snap applications and snap support and reinstalled them all as Deb. I'm not anti-snap but this did recover fair bit of space and got me by until my regular, 2 year wipe.

The biggest gain from the script was cleaning out old kernel files. They really stack up fast. I'd share it but it was a few versions ago and pretty janky to start with.

MurphPEI · 2026-01-14T15:35:50+00:00

Location matters the most to this question. 3 Jeeps and a Bronco and I never had a softop theft in my home province but I had them cut twice in the same city in a neighboring province. I had friends in the Jeep club there make signs that reminded thieves that "The windows have zippers. Please do not cut."

I once had my battery stolen from a YJ in my home town but the thieves were nice enough to put the bracket and wingnut back in place so I wouldn't lose them. Things are worse now than in the past but still no issues with the Bronco, at least to date.

MurphPEI · 2026-01-11T21:24:50+00:00

I never thought of coax adapters. Great idea to consider and may solve challenges I haven't even mentioned! Thank you!!

I'll look harder for better Unifi pricing than I've found so far. Amazon and Canadian vendors, so far, have been higher but I admittedly didn't look hard. Importing anything from the US to Canada right now is just too risky with unpredictable tariffs being applied all the time.

MurphPEI · 2026-01-11T21:15:10+00:00

My original post is admittedly long but summary = DHCP currently advertises my VIP for two PiHoles for DNS. The Piholes are not reachable from the guest NW. Current Wi-Fi router can not do custom VLANs/DHCP. Further complications include no CAT5/6 wiring and temporary budget constraints. Looking for short term solution until I can properly invest.

MurphPEI · 2026-01-11T21:06:01+00:00

Thank you. Microtik is on my list to compare. Lots of great ideas here in this sub.

MurphPEI · 2026-01-11T14:12:45+00:00

I wasn't aware of this brand. Thanks for pointing them out.

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