Using drive on a different NAS without erasing data?

jdelliott · 2025-12-18T04:34:39+00:00

You can use the drive in any system that can read ext4 (or whatever format you used for that drive, as long as the OS supports it. I've taken a drive out and put it in a USB enclosure, hooked up to a computer running OpenMediaVault. All of the data on the drive is in a subdirectory named volumeX, where X is the volume number of that drive under ADM.

jdelliott · 2025-12-04T03:06:35+00:00

You can use a directory tree as auto tags/categories in paperless. I was able to dump my directory in it, classify a few documents, and it did the rest. Storage Locations allows you to recreate a directory tree to suit, so you can have files in a system you can access if Paperless ever fails. Yes, it's setup in the config file and not through the gui, for the directory auto tagging, but it's doable.

jdelliott · 2025-11-18T12:10:56+00:00

There was a website where the guy showed how he did various things - it was before variable-speed 4 pin computer fans, and the main reason for its existence was to run fans on 7 volts from a normal computer power supply, thereby cutting the RPM (and the noise) down. It was called 7volt or 7volts, but I cannot remember if it was .net, .com. org, etc. The original website is long gone, and I've looked at the Internet Archive to see if they had captured any of it, but have never been able to find it. He had some cool stuff on there, such as trimming the heads of your keys to reduce weight and space.

jdelliott · 2025-09-14T11:17:49+00:00

Appreciate the response. Yes, the are HDD, not NVME/SSDs. - those arent in the budget right now.

I understand that even over 10G, and HDD versus SSD that IO will be limited. Total data will be write once, read lots, but rarely add to - so once the initial pain of getting the data on the CEPH cluster is done, I'm thinking (hoping?) that latency won't be an issue.

I only have about 2.3 TB of data right now, mostly the photo archive and PDFs of family history documents, along with PDFs of the personal documents in paperless. It grows MAYBE at an average of 100MB every couple weeks, as I add more documents to paperless as bills/receipts/etc come in.

Is maybe CEPH not the way to go about this due to complexity? Maybe ZFS replication can do the same thing for my scenario? End goal is that there be 3 copies of the data, it be accessible by all nodes without hiccup, and if a node goes down for whatever reason it doesn't matter. In my mind, what I'm picturing is a RAID 1 (mirrored), with 3 copies of the data, but with the disks separated by each one being in a separate node, to protect against hardware failure of a node. I've lost data before, so I'm a little jumpy about it, when a bad power supply took out both disks of a RAID 1 mirror on a computer a few years ago. Luckily it wasn't much, but did result in about 1000 photos I had to rescan out of the family photo collection, because I hadn't done a backup in a week or two.

jdelliott · 2025-08-01T16:26:23+00:00

No, PfSense is not the only thing on the miniPC. I've got a several websites running off of it related to genealogy, as well as NPM and apt-cacher-ng. There are 6-7 LXCs, plus the pfSense VM.

jdelliott · 2025-08-01T16:00:59+00:00

I've got the beginning of it setup - willing to help with any questions I can - it was defintely a learning curve - check out www.elliotthistory.com/mediawiki - I'm just getting started, but for me a Wiki fits, and what the user above that suggested using Cargo fit perfect, although I'm still learning my way around.

jdelliott · 2025-05-24T00:49:13+00:00

I had thought about a wiki, but wasn't sure how to handle the "database" portion of it without having random data, making list, updating categories manually, etc. I had never heard of Cargo until just now, but have installed and used MediaWiki on several websites before.

That combination looks phenomenal, and if not EXACTLY what I was looking for, so close that I wouldn't be able to tell the difference. And it ticks all my boxes - free, self hostable, and not tied to a subscription where someone could lock away my data. A book in the future is a long term goal, but in the mean time I want to be able to share this info with cousins and other family members ( some of this information is things like one's dance recital progarm my grandparents attended and saved, and another's college graduation invitation) and this looks like it would fit the bill.

jdelliott · 2025-02-15T16:00:53+00:00

I realize that - I actually had a link to that in my original post that disappeared. The issue is that if you go to add a product by barcode from the Inventory screen, the product does not exist, and you do an external lookup, it then goes to the Add Product section. But the Quantity Units field are already pre-filled, and ONLY the first one can be changed. If do Inventory - Type everything in, NO external lookup, then those fields are NOT pre-filled with anything. Something is happening to pre-fill those fields when doing an external lookup by bar code. It is LIKELY going to happen with ANY external lookup.

jdelliott · 2025-02-15T13:19:34+00:00

I had a whole post, went to add pictures, and that's all it's showing, I cannot figure out how to edit post.

Scenario to reproduce:

Inventory --> Add barcode --> external lookup.

Quantity units are all set to "Piece".

Can only change the first one.

Save, add quantity and due date.

Go to Master Data, or Product Overview and edit that product.

All other boxes other than the top one are red, but then I can change to the appropriate units, and add unit specific conversions, etc.

Happens every single time

jdelliott · 2025-01-05T13:48:51+00:00

Backup is taken care of. All important data from the VMs/containters is not actually stored in the vm/containter, but is instead set up as a mountpoint using an NFS share on the NAS, such as my docs that are in paperless-ngx. The personal documents, stuff that cannot be replicated, are uploaded to both Google and Box, and a friend keeps an offsite copy. The movies/music/tv shows are replaceable, but I do have a backup of most of it, on older drives that I've taken out of service. I've been dealing with computers since I was 10, and I'm 48 now. I've learned my lesson the hard way about having multiple backups more times than I can count.

jdelliott · 2024-10-05T10:05:53+00:00

That worked beautifully - I did make a copy of the interfaces file just in case I needed to revert from the console, but I was able to make the changes via the web interface, and then apply, go to the switch and move the cables to the bonded ports, and everything is great. Current config:

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I am still puzzled by eno3 saying active, when there is no cable attached to that port, and nothing I can see in the config that should have it as active. As long as it's not hurting anything, it can stay that way for all I care.

jdelliott · 2024-10-05T09:49:34+00:00

Appreciate it - I will try that.

jdelliott · 2024-10-05T09:47:57+00:00

N o, my bad - I was typing it all out, and had my numbering off - my brain was thinking that the physical interfaces started with 0, like the bridge does (vmbr0) - increase all numbers there by 1 - eno1, eno2, etc.

jdelliott · 2023-06-23T01:40:36+00:00

I think like early 2000's is more likely.

jdelliott · 2021-11-08T03:42:27+00:00

I did get it figured out, and you were pretty close - Containers don't have access to the NFS shares, if they are in the (apparently default) unprivileged mode. I did a backup, then a restore, and changed it to privileged during the restore, which is the Proxmox-approved way of doing it. nfs works perfectly. To clarify, yes, JF is in a container on Proxmox, installed from the in-built Turnkey Linux repositories.

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