MangoPenguin

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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Just switch to Syncthing, I ditched Nextcloud years ago after many issues with both the desktop client and the server, 2 of them leading to complete data loss. It's slow, bloated, poorly made and full of bugs.

If you need a web based file manager you can set up Syncthing on your server and run Filebrowser or similar. As a bonus it's like 10x faster than nextcloud to use. If you need WebDAV then SFTPGo provides that nicely.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I'd say encrypt before upload using rclone or similar, regardless of what provider you choose.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This would be done in your routers QoS settings using the port to select traffic most likely, or if running the containers in macvlan networking mode, by IP.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is anyone using it? I've tried hosting a FB Messenger bridge to Matrix before but it would just disconnect constantly and didn't work.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Average linux help post, someone comes along saying "why do you need that" instead of being helpful lol

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

My plan was to install Proxmox and run TrueNAS on top of it

Proxmox runs ZFS natively already so there's not much reason to bother with TrueNAS IMO. If you need SMB shares and that sort of thing you can run a container and mount the ZFS volume into it.

I currently have 4x900 GB 10k SAS Dell Enterprise drives but I intend to bump that up to 10x900 GB over time. I’d like to be able to add these without much hassle

If you want to easily add drives later on then as far as I know the only good option is the controller in HBA mode with unRAID in a VM. Hardware RAID or ZFS don't make adding drives very easy.

I’m wondering if using ZFS with the RAID controller in HBA mode will be more worth it than a dedicated RAID setup

I think ZFS RAID with HBA mode on the controller is worth it vs traditional hardware RAID, it's more portable, less reliant on hardware.

And if I’m using a RAID setup, should I go RAID or unRAID? If I go RAID, is RAID 01, 10, or 60 a better option here?

With 10 drives I would probably do ZFS RAIDz2 if this was my setup. (RAIDz2 has 2 parity drives like RAID 6).

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

If you're OK with a little more power usage (like 10W instead of 3-5W), you can buy a mini PC from Dell/Lenovo/HP with a 7th gen Intel CPU for about $50-70 on ebay, with storage and RAM included. As a bonus you also get a case, power supply, cooling, etc.. which you have to buy extra for the Pi.

It'll be significantly faster in every way, with a lot more options for expansion if needed. The Pi 3 is very slow for even the most basic tasks, even just running apt upgrade can take several minutes or more for a few package updates.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They run NAT/Firewall by default (or at least mine does), but I also have the VPN tunnel to home because it's convenient for accessing stuff and hides traffic.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Resticprofile is also a good one, and supports windows.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This looks perfect! I've been waiting for something like this because I really don't like interacting via CLI with my backups.

Going to give it a try, do you take donations? I'll send one if I end up using it!

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It can be part of a circuit, but charge either goes in or comes out, it can't do both at the same time.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Think of it like a water tank connected to a "T" in a hose, when the tank is partially empty some of the water from the hose will go into it, but once the tank is full the water just continues through the hose bypassing the tank entirely.

So if current can’t go through the battery… how could it be receiving power…?

Once the battery is charged current goes directly from the DC power supply to the laptop electronics, like the example with the hose and tank it just bypasses the battery entirely because the battery is at the same potential as the power supply.

Batteries don't have an 'input' and 'output', they just have a single connection.

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