I’ve looked at jellyfin a while ago, it’s not my thing. Ran a quick install of navidrome, Looks like that could be a way to go, Especially if I connect my raspi’s to that. It would mean 1 machine indexing instead of three+. Also getting rid of favorite syncing. Promising. Thnx for the tip.

I (still) have and use one, but it has it’s limitations. (t.ex. usage in the car)

Exposing services to the internet is a whole other game. Try wireguard first, i never had issues and use it mostly from my tablet.

I know and I agree. I still want an air-gap backup. Because …it’s air gapped

I have an apc 3000 which is a fantastic device. But it uses more power than my pc, switch, router and ap’s combined. The grid is stable enough for me to rely on things to survive or can be restored from either the local or the offsite backup.

I copy my data to a nas at home. That copies once a day to an off-site nas. Once in a while I connect an external disk to the nas and copy all and disconnect it.

Perfect or not, compliant with backup procedures or not … it works for me and i’m happy having with an air gap backup.

I think it sould work, but That’s why I went for homegallery (single binary executable)

Them: Yeah, but … It’s sooo easy and I have nothing to hide.

I’ve had immich but went to homegalley instead. Mostly because I want to keep MY directory structure in case I’m abandoning the choosen platform. Have not regretted my choice (so far … 8 months)

I went for kiss and very very low resources: All my logs go to one central syslog. That takes in the logs, filters out crap, send critical messages to IRC and writes logs to postgres. Then grafana queries the postgresdb

Well, switched from check_mk to librenms this morning. and indeed, it’s a much better fit. Much more network oriented compared to many other tools.

Are you kidding me? True, there is time involved. My biggest ‘sin’ right now is “home gallery” for it works on MY directory structure which I won’t give up.

The geoguessing game that hides in it is superb ! I’m still amazed with the images I’ve been able to locate. Sometimes 40 years back.

Power consumption is the 2nd thing i look for in my IT devices (first is “do I need internet/cloud services to run it” … Yes is an absolut disqualifier)

Nice post. Recognisable too. I have an old server from work at home, but came to the same conclusion: with that power consumption it’s no fun running it 24/7 at home.

Thnx! This looks like the way to go.

Bit broad question but Sounds like a nas can be a way to go. Read up on raid and think about your backup strategy first.

(I use a synology nas with 4Tb disk at home that backups to an offsite readynas with 4x 4tb disks in raid config and encryption)

Thought of roughly the same, but triggered on the price of electricity (I have the nordpool integration). It’s only my machine doesn’t understand I want it to start or continue after a power surge :(

Guilty too. There are names on router- and switch interfaces. Servers get fixed IP from dhcp so is in the note field there too. That’s about it

I love syncthing!! I have one VM with only debian an syncthing and that machine is backed-up frequently. All others PC’s and vm’s syncthing to that one machine.

All of them sync ~/downloads

All machines I use for coding also sync ~/code

My desktop machines sync ~/documents.

And so on. Works great (for me)

I never read such a thing. I never had that myself and run ha on proxmox since many years. on Debian OS on proxmox.