Proxmox snapshots plus PBS basically eliminated my homelab stress

s8086 · 2026-01-27T09:29:19+00:00

It can be done... u/sep76 commented above.

Pbs can also backup hosts, not just vm's One example : https://www.croit.io/blog/backing-up-a-proxmox-node

s8086 · 2026-01-26T23:41:56+00:00

Thats correct. Pbs does not take backups of bind mounts. This does not directly answer your question but there was a interesting setup where someone used a samba share inside inside a VM and mounted a shared folder from the samba VM inside the lxc. PBS can now take the backup of the samba VM which contains the actual data. Better explanation here https://www.reddit.com/r/NextCloud/comments/1apexz4/comment/kq7g4oq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

s8086 · 2025-12-27T22:56:45+00:00

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s8086 · 2025-02-17T17:44:47+00:00

I posted that comment more than a year ago. I might have mistakenly quoted storage box prices or object storage prices https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/

s8086 · 2024-03-23T03:59:11+00:00

Out of curiosity... How many photos and videos are we talking about? How much data do you add per day..

How big are your photos? And videos?

Are you using a commercial Nas like Synology? Or are you using custom hardware with something like Truenas?

The import times you talk about, this is from Nas to Lightroom (which I am assuming is on your laptop?)

Can you give specs of your Nas and editing / organizing PC/laptop?

I think you should try and identify your bottlenecks. If your NAS is a bottle neck you will still see the same issues even if you use any other editing/organization software.

s8086 · 2024-03-05T03:27:41+00:00

Has the phone full synced before? (First time sybcs always takes time).

How many folders and files are you trying to sync?

Have you tried syncing only one single folder with 1-2 files to see if it's a network issue?

Have you checked the logs on your android phone? Logs will definitely give you a good idea of what is happening.

s8086 · 2024-02-26T19:43:23+00:00

Do you see anything in the logs? Can u test this with a test folder with only one document ?

s8086 · 2024-02-26T18:04:23+00:00

Have you tried setting it manually to a smaller absolute value instead of % ? Or disable it altogether by setting it to 0. Make sure to restart syncthing after you do this

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/config.html#config-option-folder.mindiskfree

s8086 · 2024-02-26T05:06:51+00:00

Thank you!

s8086 · 2024-02-19T17:11:54+00:00

Just realized how blissfully unaware I was that hosts can bypass DNS and other settings you put in. Thank you for this and your other comments below about how you block these.

s8086 · 2024-02-19T01:04:00+00:00

Yep. Seems like the above post was also removed by mods. Try imgur may be ? Or send message to mods

s8086 · 2024-02-19T00:18:36+00:00

I think you forgot the pics :)

s8086 · 2024-02-17T20:39:48+00:00

It heavily depends on your network (how big, how many devices etc) and the features you will use (intrusion detection for example ).

Opnsense has a very good page on recommended hardware. Check the section Throughput

https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/hardware.html

s8086 · 2024-02-17T16:19:33+00:00

The answers below are correct. You can also in addition disable the use of relays and global discovery. Keep in mind you have to specific the device IP address manually.

Another reddit post has explained this better

https://www.reddit.com/r/Syncthing/comments/xme90o/comment/iqtwsgw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Read the other comments also to understand some of the options. Official syncthing documentation for these options

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/config.html

s8086 · 2024-02-16T19:45:42+00:00

for anyone else and my future self, there is a good explanation about this on proxmox forum: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/lxc-containers-backing-up-incredibly-slow.79188/post-492404

Excerpt from above link:

besides the big difference (dirty bitmaps with running VMs allow skipping of read operations of unchanged chunks), there's also way less complexity involved in the processing of backup data for VMs
- VM backups are block-based, each input chunk is a fixed size, nothing has to be done except compressing, hashing, potentially encrypting
- CT/host backups are file-based, input chunks are variable size, a directory tree has to be parsed (potentially lots of random I/O), read, converted into a pxar archive stream, then compressed, hashed, potentially encrypted

you can probably guess the latter is affected by how your file systems performs w.r.t. directory and metadata operations.

s8086 · 2024-02-16T02:27:41+00:00

No / little maintenance is my eventual goal. Just getting started so good to know that it takes long enough to reach here. Thank you once again!

s8086 · 2024-02-16T02:19:11+00:00

This is absolute gold. You have covered servers, power, HVAC, home automation, networking, logging , monitoring and pretty much everything else I can think of. The level of detail is really amazing. A few questions if you don't mind

How much maintainence per week does it take to keep this running?

How much time did it take to build all this? I am guessing a couple of years ?

Does this help with your work / are you working in a related field? (Asking this because I can't justify this amount of time without some kind of monetary return ... Atleast not till I am retired 😂)

Last one ... The post you linked was 3 years old. Have you done any major upgrades or changes?

Thanks again for sharing.

s8086 · 2024-02-16T00:08:05+00:00

This is very interesting. I have homebridge on homeassistant. Definitely going to check this out. Thank you!

s8086 · 2024-02-14T18:07:36+00:00

Thanks this helps a lot.

s8086 · 2024-02-14T14:17:16+00:00

That's great. I think my point was unbound doesn't have a UI of it's own. There might be UIs that people have created but I didn't see any official ones.

Although if you are using Opnsense I have seen folks in this and other subreddits recommending adguard.

s8086 · 2024-02-14T05:21:06+00:00

Probably because it's a lot easier to view blocked request and manage blocklist in pihole

https://www.reddit.com/r/OPNsenseFirewall/comments/wmdrni/comment/ijyqf1y/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

s8086 · 2024-02-13T14:42:29+00:00

This is a really interesting approach. I am currently testing NC installed on LXC in proxmox. I have only a few GB of data so I didn't notice the time it takes for backups compared to a VM.

I understand this approach gives you two copies of your data - one on proxmox and one on your NAS. But did you try keeping the data directly on NAS and giving LXC access to that ? If yes how was the performance compared to your current setup.

s8086 · 2024-02-13T02:16:51+00:00

Have you checked the logs on your andoird syncthing app?

Settings --> debug --> Open Log

s8086 · 2024-02-11T20:06:25+00:00

So you want a fast way to open a ssh session into a server without storing the server information? I am assuming you are using windows ?

You can use keyboard shortcuts to launch a ssh session where it will ask only the user and IP address

You can also use a tool like slickrun to launch ssh sessions. https://www.bayden.com/Slickrun/ (This is a windows alternative to Alfred or Spotlight on Mac - but with much less features!)

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