Is it all automated with versioning intervals and stuff? Or is restic required as a third party step and maintaining a duplicate of data on the server for it to grab?

Overall it sounds like a decent VM manager but is meant for enterprise stuff where they’ll be building their own backup systems.

Yeah I mean even if it was trained specifically for that, they often will still be incorrect because they don’t actually understand the concepts they’re presenting.

The one that comes with your DE is generally just fine, unless you’re a serious terminal user.

One feature that might be nice is some kind of local LLM integration so I can get help on how to tinker with settings and such

I think that’s a quick way to nuke your install, LLMs are generally wrong about what commands to run and don’t understand enough to know when something is dangerous. All it takes is changing one wrong file and everything breaks.

You can use a VPN client that supports split tunneling.

I believe the openvpn client does, and there’s also https://tunnl.to/

Yes but it should always be opt-in. Just present a nice message telling users how it helps development with a checkbox they can hit.

That’s what proxmox has too, but snapshots aren’t backups and aren’t being sent to a remote backup server… You’re also not supposed to keep snapshots around for very long, whereas I have backups going back several months.

Or are you sending snapshots to a remote server? I think ZFS can do that, so maybe that’s an option I can look at.

This looks interesting, how do you handle automated backups of all the VMs/Containers? Their docs kind of seem to say “stop everything and figure it out”, but with Proxmox I’m used to it handling everything automatically to my PBS server every night.

It’s definitely not an easy migration in my experience, because they run rootless and they cannot auto-start without making a system service for every stack, there is a lot that needs to change in a compose stack, especially with file permissions for shared mounts.

Not really an issue IMO.

Doesn’t windows have storage spaces or something like that? I’m not familiar with windows for any kind of server stuff but I remember reading some things.

It’s a drive pooling application for windows, lets you merge multiple drives into a single mount.

They had a hardware issue, I believe with the firewall on the rack setup it sounded like?

Since you’re running it in docker all you need to do is change the mount locations in your docker-compose file. Then copy the existing data to the new location.

If you’re currently using a volume instead of a bind mount then the existing data will be under /var/lib/docker/volumes

Not even close from what I’ve seen, basic stuff doesn’t work right.

That’s sort of how it works though isn’t it? If games at $80 are too much then less people will buy, profits will drop and publishers will either lower prices, or vanish and get replaced by ones that lower prices.

Definitely run everything on the M.2 since you have it. MicroSD is so slow and wears out super quickly.

Opnsense kinda has a webUI for HAProxy, but it’s also not very good.

I recommend learning the config files, since HAProxy is probably the best option for a HA load balancer.

Yes some, but the power consumption is extremely high. A cheap $40 PC with an i5-6500 CPU would out perform it at about 1/15th the power draw.

This thing is mostly just interesting to play with.

You’re going to get much better performance now too if the monitor was plugged into the motherboard before

when selfhosters can just help each other storing parts of others backup.

That’s essentially what Storj, Sia, etc… are for, they’re decentralized storage systems where users can contribute storage to the network which automatically distributes data over all the ‘hosters’.