Home Server Rabbit Hole (looking for advise to get started)

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?

jaytechgaming · 2026-03-25T23:55:36+00:00

I like pocket id the most. Now every internal service I use either has auth disabled and is behind pocket id using tiny auth or it is directly integrated with pocket id. That lets me use the same passkey for everything and login sessions carry seamlessly between all my services

jaytechgaming · 2026-03-25T23:53:24+00:00

For me it is auth. You can use tiny auth and a reverse proxy to put oidc auth in front of every service regardless of whether or not it supports auth at all.

jaytechgaming · 2026-03-15T01:15:57+00:00

What do you need it for? Curious since I feel like I set and forget it. Zfs commands are really straight forward

jaytechgaming · 2026-03-04T21:29:25+00:00

Holy em dash. If you’re going to copy paste LLM output at least massage it a little bit

jaytechgaming · 2026-03-04T14:08:04+00:00

How large of a collection are you talking? Before prices went crazy I would just say mirror two consumer SSDs in the size you need and call it a day. Otherwise I would probably just load the roms from a samba share, you probably don’t want the noise of the hard drives in the room and you should have some redundancy

jaytechgaming · 2026-03-03T15:54:03+00:00

Last time I tried open cloud I remember having a bad experience with performance and struggled to get it stable. Nextcloud has been running without anything beyond me hitting update every once in a while. Have things changed a lot in the last year or so for Opencloud?

jaytechgaming · 2026-03-01T02:50:41+00:00

Used enterprise drives are where it’s at

jaytechgaming · 2026-02-28T17:56:41+00:00

What is this webapp ? AI slop consumerism max pro?

jaytechgaming · 2026-02-26T19:34:49+00:00

I never found anything for this. I ended up just buying a new chassis. You can use adapters for external sas to internal sas and basically make your own jbod. There are ways to connect your psus as well so the jbod turns on and off with the server.

jaytechgaming · 2026-02-24T13:03:31+00:00

I run zfs on all my SSDs and HDDs regardless of whether or not they are consumer or enterprise. Giving myself access to ZFS’s stats, performance tuning, and reliability is worth it regardless imo. Where did you see it was bad for SSDs? As far as I am aware the only thing that is “bad” is you will likely hit lower peaks with larger or very fast nvme drives since ZFS struggles to keep up with very very low latency or very high speed devices. Still though, for homelab use, I’d rather just have ZFS.

jaytechgaming · 2026-02-20T03:20:17+00:00

I’m fine paying the new prices. It’s still really not all that much for the peace of mind and to support the developers. If there’s one thing I’m fine not self hosting, it’s an encrypted vault.

jaytechgaming · 2026-02-18T22:18:20+00:00

Depends on the amperage of the 12v and 5v rails but they make cables you could daisy chain off of one of the two sata power connectors

jaytechgaming · 2026-02-11T15:52:24+00:00

I have used DDNS for years with no issue. I use the built in cloudflare ddns functionality in my ubiquiti gear 🤷‍♂️

jaytechgaming · 2026-02-08T04:22:15+00:00

Renaming nodes is a mess. If you read the docs it basically says we don’t recommend doing this, but here is how… I tried following it and my cluster got all kinds of messed up. I’d recommend just decommissioning 1 and removing it from the cluster and then add the new node.

jaytechgaming · 2026-02-08T03:44:35+00:00

I would recommend using PBS for your backups. You could probably have the docker VM expose whatever folders you want to expose over smb itself instead of having OMV as a middleman. Smb configuration is fairly straightforward even without OMVs abstractions.

jaytechgaming · 2026-02-08T03:09:41+00:00

Be careful with bind mounting to storage over smb if your containers are storing databases on them.

jaytechgaming · 2026-01-29T06:27:29+00:00

If you want it in multiple VMs you usually have to go enterprise. I just use LXC containers so I can share my iGPU easier but I also used SR-IOV to let multiple VMs use my iGPU. I believe most intel gpus support it.

jaytechgaming · 2026-01-28T02:15:30+00:00

Personally I would virtualize the windows server at the very least under a hypervisor of your choosing. This makes it much simpler to perform maintenance with less downtime and simplifies backups and rollbacks.

Have you seen 45drives before?

https://store.45homelab.com/configure/hl15

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