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Im not seeking to build a server, I want to replace my singular 3TB harddrive I had in an external cradle for a while witha raid array because it failed and took 700GB of backups and photography data with it.
I would not be opposed to it having an internet connectivity, but primarily I want to connect it to my PC via USB. I think I would go for 3+1 or 3+2 system of 1TB drives. Ideally, it would just behave like any external harddrive.
What would be a good system to buy and what brand of HDDs should I get?
I run Linux on both my PC and laptop and I sometimes use a switch to use my setup on either of them when I'm at my desk, btw.

Is there a way to run a 4 disk RAID10 storage solution under Windows with the intention of eventually taking those disks and transferring them into a Synology NAS?

I'm currently using Windows Storage Spaces and would like an exit path out of the windows ecosystem that would allow me to use an array in the meantime.

>>109030431
>not seeking to build a serve
>my singular 3TB harddrive failed
>and took 700GB of backups and photography data with it
Replace with TWO disks.
Use one like a regular disk (like you did the 3tb drive).
And have your OS do backups to the other drive.

Internal disks or usb disks, doesn't really matter except from a perspective of cleanliness (mess of wires / being able to physically move the the whole thing to another location, etc).

>raid array
I don't see the need for this.

>>109030390 (OP)
Is "home server" becoming a normie hobby? I watch only tutorials and occasionally listen music, but recently I noticed increasing number of normie looking youtubers posting about "homelabbing" and their coonsum media servers to "free themselves from cloud".

I guess the elites are going to ruin this part of tech next, after they targeted linux.

>>109034211
>Is "home server" becoming a normie hobby?
No.

>>109030390 (OP)
oh fuck you i laughed

>>109034211
>Is "home server" becoming a normie hobby?
it's become more accessible for sure but I wouldn't call it something normies would pick up on a whim
oh and the increasing prices aren't helping either so...

I hate kubernetes
death to devops

>>109030390 (OP)
Arcane is so much better than Portainer

>>109030390 (OP)
Lads I'm looking for intermediate/advanced ideas for the lab. Feeling very uninspired and blocked atm. I've hosted everything there is to host and adding new shit feels as trivial as adding a service in docker compose. The only thing left for me to do is actually develop software. I'm thinking maybe I should overengineer a website or something, or maybe build a sandbox for pentesting. k8s mini pc cluster perhaps? idk, what are your thoughts?

>>109034211
>Is "home server" becoming a normie hobby
yea
i mean have you seen /r/homelab lately?
it's just
>i got a good deal for this $40 shitbox minipc. give me ideas what to do with it so i can put on my LinkedIn "i am running le homelab server"
either that or
>please curate what some AI told me about this particular subject

>>109035981
The answer is always run your own local time server.

might switch my trusty x540's to fibre. primarily because of smaller cables. flat cat6a are becoming an eye sore.

need to make 30m cable run. any tips or gotcha's?
already disappointed that most fibre is made in yellow blue or pink...looking for black/white.

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>>109037297
>already disappointed that most fibre is made in yellow blue or pink
That's because they are color coded.

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>>109030390 (OP)
I'm about to convert an old Dell SFF desktop into a NAS using OpenMediaVault. Basically a source for streaming audio + video to TVs around the house.
I've got an old 1T HDD, and these things are limited space. Should I get a separate smaller SSD (128G) to put the OS on, rather than installing the OS on the HDD? Putting everything on HDD just seems wrong.

>>109035413
I love Kubernetes.

>>109037418
It's not best practice to keep your OS and archives together on a single disk.

how do I make the jellyfin server update more frequently than every 15 mins? its annoying having to manually refresh the server and I'm setting it up for someone else

>>109037620
Why do you need to update it more frequently than every 15 minutes

>>109035771
learn to develop and build your own ci/cd

>>109037686
the current pipeline is to copy stuff into the movies and series folders and then use jellyfin on the TV (google streamer 4k) to watch stuff, and again I'm setting this up for someone else and trying to make it as seamless as possible. i know if the solution is to manually update the database this means me doing remote desktop every time

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Is this overkill for a home server upgrade?
I'm currently running docker with multiple containers on a Pi 4 and while I'm not running into too many issues currently I am approaching maxxing it out. I also want to start running AI agents from the home server. Can/Should I cut any corners here?

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>>109037749
this is in the settings for each folder right? it doesn't work

>>109037758
Library settings

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>>109037768
yeah its enabled, I wonder if its something to do with the android TV app

>>109037783
Works on my machine
The client app you're using shouldn't make a difference
Try checking the scheduled tasks in the admin dashboard

>>109037698
>learn to develop
Anon, I didn't specifically pick a DevOps path just to become a dev anyway. Can I not just use existing software for this?

>>109037848
>Can I not just use existing software for this?
sure you can but there's no point really, plus it's boring
>I didn't specifically pick a DevOps path just to become a dev anyway
Devops also develop software you dummy, management software more specifically

>>109037686
How is this a helpful question?

>>109037862
fucking around with k8s/terraform/ansible/git and shitting out bash scripts is software development to you? or are you talking about something else entirely?
>it's boring
I'm not looking for entertainment, I'm looking for employment.

>>109037910
>fucking around with k8s/terraform/ansible/git and shitting out bash scripts is software development to you? or are you talking about something else entirely?
That's not development, I'm talking about something else, as an example: here where I work the devops team develops and maintains a Slack bot that is in charge of the monthly releases which involves multiple shit into a single flow like:
>>select jira tickets meant for release
>>check that release docs are signed and closed
>>create yaml file with all services meant to be deployed and their version
>>kick off deployment for each microservice
>>healthcheck each microservice
>>trigger smoke tests and notify relevant parties
it does this every single deployment for multiple environments and involves jenkins, quickbuild, jira, rancher and who knows what other tech
>I'm not looking for entertainment, I'm looking for employment.
you're too short sighted if you don't plan on getting into development

>>109037958
>you're too short sighted if you don't plan on getting into development
Why? A lot of these senior platform/devops roles look like true endgame shit

>>109037418
In that case I would put the OS and media on different drives. If you had a proper RAID on your HDDs, then I wouldn't bat an eye installing the OS on it too.

>>109038090
>why?
are you retarded? because development skills are also highly valuable for a devops position

>>109037620
Does Jellyfin not have directory watching?

>>109037862
>Devops also develop software you dummy
I think the idea of DevOps was to marry development and operations together, so if you wrote shit, you also deployed shit. But quite honestly, having done software development and DevOps, that idea is not executed in reality. Our team had a lot less time for dev and a lot more time doing ops for all of the other development teams.

>>109038119
>are you retarded?
You tell me. I've been going through a lot of job ads and I've not seen any of them ask for anything beyond Python scripting.

>>109038139
>I've not seen any of them ask for anything beyond Python scripting.
That is correct, proper python scripting is actually development

>>109038153
Oh, I get it now. So you knew exactly what I've been trying to say this entire time and you chose to keep leading me on because you happen to be particularly autistic over the definition of "development". Nice one, faggot.

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>>109037703
You're speccing for the AI stuff, which will dwarf anything a Pi4 could have run, so it's pointless wondering if it's overkill for what you used to do.
With that in mind the question becomes "is this a good AI rig?" and the answer to that is "depends. What AI do you want to run on it?"
"Agents" is pretty broad. Could mean any tool-calling LLM in terms of hardware requirements. Will a shitty tool-calling one work for your agent? Maybe. Depends what you intend for your agent to do. Most people don't know. You should figure out what you want it to do before you drop nearly $4,000 not including the GPU price. Also depending on your use case it's completely possible this actually won't be enough and you need even more VRAM or a completely different setup.

Are power inefficient devices just meant for the landfill? I can't justify running my 60w server 24/7 when the n100 exists

>>109038866
Yes.

if i was to use cloudflare to act as the gateway to my home server on which i want to host a git instance on which i plan to allow piracy-enabling/license-flouting projects (i.e. ports of leaked game source code is just one of the things i had in mind), would i get my ass tracked down by the glowies?

>>109038959
The question is not whether you would get tracked down (- you would). It's whether they have a reason to care enough about what you do in the first place.

Should I switch from docker to podman?

>>109037703
Price looks horrific.
What ebay prices for used ddr4 ryzen box or intel 12th gen box ?

>ai
Been to /lmg/ to figure out your options for models, minimum amount of vram, and the amount of context that gets you ?

>agentic
For role playing you can get away with a slow token generation rate.
For agentic is has to be fast fast fast.

>>109039198
yeah that's true. idk how much glowies care about the game industry basically. i'm sure some kike ceo would try and use the state to get me.
looked into setting up an alibaba cloud to host the server but they charge retardedly high amounts for a small EC2 instance equivalent.

>>109037703
>ai agents
either max out cpu + ram or max out gpu, try to guess which one is cheaper
I'm about to get the DGX Spark (and sell my 3090s), some anons will argue it's not meant for inference but hey it performs similar to a 3090 while having 128GB of VRAM plus expandable with more DGXs

>>109038866
>60w
thats 1 old light bulb lol, is everyone really this poor in current year?

>>109039464
How fucking shitty are your light bulbs?

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>>109038959
unfortunately git via ssh requires an open port, unless you use cloudflare tunnels from an external VPS

>>109030944
I saw your post in this thread: >>109037560 →

As far as I know, the only file systems that natively work in both Windows and GNU/Linux are FAT32 (not an option with it's max 4GB per file limit) and NTFS. And NTFS sucks and requires you to go back to Window$ to run chkdsk.

Only option is to run RAIDed NTFS drives in Windows: gross. Unless, you can run RAID software in Windows which operates ext4 / ZFS / whatever HDDs without using WSL. I don't use Windows. I don't have a great answer to your problem. Did you ask a search engine or duck.ai?

About the thread you posted in -- >>109032656 → -- I looked at this thread today saw it was on page 10 and alive. Less than 30 minutes later, it's still on page 10 but now it's bumped off the board (read only). Is this a new 4chan update? I thought threads only died when they reached page 11.

>>109040989
Windows has a functional btrfs driver which supports multiple disks.

>>109038959
Russian VPS that you pay for in XMR. Set up an nginx reverse proxy on that to point to your locally hosted service over wireguard.

>>109030390 (OP)
>https://diskprices.com/
Prices have really went up. Could partly be a good thing, as cheap external drives aren't always trustworthy.

External 3.5" HDD:
- Now: minimum is 20 USD per terabyte (20 USD/TB for a used HDD = WTF)
- A year or two before 2026: minimum is around 15 USD per terabyte

>>109035503 →
The router seemed to stop throttling the ssh connection between computers in the LAN after I restarted wpa_supplicant, 50 minutes between kill and start:
>2026-06-12T23:30:59.465828120Z = pkill'd
>2026-06-13T00:19:58.442378235Z = sudo wpa_supplicant -B -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wlan0.conf -i wlan0
though I may have only needed the wifi program (wpa_supplicant) to be off for 1 minute.

Now it's back to saying that it will process 7.02 GiB in 43 minutes (14 times faster than the network speed before). Don't know why my router is doing this. I don't know the underlying problem or how to ultimately solve this, but I do have a solution.

>>109037703
ai agents don't take all that much. I threw 12GB and 6 vcpus at my Hermes and its speedy af. My cpu is same clock speed as yours and its great. Look into the Minisforum a2 it might be more up your alley and save you some $$$

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>>109041515
I bought two of these lil niggas in 2024 and wish I would have bought 10 of them

>>109038121
it does but it doesnt seem to work

I made an ngrok account and found that their free tier is useless for anything other than personal usage. More details: >>109032731 →

If I make a Cloudflare account can I use it for anything useful without entering my credit card info?

>>109043311
9 USD per terabyte, wow. That's what I was thinking: back in 2024 the minimum wasn't just 15 USD/TB it was closer to 12 USD/TB. Lowest Best Buy price I paid was around 18 USD/TB, in 2024 and 2023 for external drives with a size of ~20 TB. Now Best Buy probably reverted back to the rip off price of 24 USD/TB (or more expensive).

>>109043311
i bought 2 10TB drives a few years ago when i was trying to get into video editing, but i soon learned vlogging is boring. so i luckily have a decent double backup solution, for my server though its just 3TB, and i delete media once i finish it

where is that pajeet who was spamming here
>bro just use arch on your server
ahahahahahah.

>>109039218
Podman has great systemd integration via quadlets and it can be upgraded without killing your containers due to a central daemon getting restarted. If you don't care about these advantages then Podman may not be worth it as it's less popular and you lose official support for Compose.

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Do you use NixOS on your server, anons?

>>109030390 (OP)
Am I just too retarded or overcomplicating k8s and storage? My goal is a single-node cluster.

>>109044952
Kubernetes makes very little sense for a single node.

>>109044704
sort of, i have a nixos vm i'm learning on

>>109040989
>FAT32 (not an option with it's max 4 GB per file limit)
While writing that part of the post, I thought of a workaround for that: use IPFS. If you use Kubo IPFS, it shards the files into de-duplicated .data files which each have a max size of 1 MB. Of course, >4GB files can't natively exist in the FAT32 HDD. The FAT32 drive could be IPFS-only and contain larger-than-4-GB files which are from other storage devices (FAT32 drive acting as a backup or mirror in that case), or delete the original files if you need to save space or something.

I wonder which is better: FAT32 or NTFS? I'm guessing FAT32.

On the topic of using IPFS for storing copies of data where the original is deleted, I've seen catbox.moe delete videos containing music multiple times.[1] I have used IPFS to prevent these stupid deletions.[2]
>1. https://web.archive.org/web/20260609224506/https://files.catbox.moe/rhebb4.mp4 = 404/deleted, but the previous capture is HTTP 200 (not deleted)
>2. https://archive.is/http://15.235.233.155/ipfs/QmXu* = https://files.catbox.moe/o4k44w.mp4 was deleted in 2024-02-27 02:53:40

>>109043369
>i delete media once i finish it
I hope you at least seed it to a share ratio of more than 3. I go for more than 15.00, but never delete the stuff.

Only media that I download and delete is the .ts files from my HLS server / service. It's a livestreaming thing to do stuff like screen sharing. It automatically deletes the .ts video files from /tmp/hls/.

>>109045212
Anyone else have experiences with catbox.moe deleting uploads?

>https://files.catbox.moe/rhebb4.mp4
The live version is still deleted.

>https://files.catbox.moe/o4k44w.mp4 was deleted in 2024-02-27 02:53:40
Live version was undeleted in 2026: neat.

>>109043311
Damn that's nice. I bought a few 20TB drives in feb of 25 and they were $230 each.

I remember around the end of last year people were saying HDD prices were safe and it was mostly SSD prices rising. Looking at the prices now I’m glad I bought a few drives that were on sale. This is just insane.

>>109046572
I'd say HDD prices are still closer to baseline than SSD prices. My HDDs I bought last month weren't that much more per TB than the drives I bought in like 2021. Meanwhile RAM and SSD prices are just completely out of whack.

>>109035981
yeah r/homelab is now a cesspit of tinyminimicro plex/jellyfin/nas + fotw ai sloppa
10 years ago it was "buy a r710/r720 and install esxi" now its all gay shit
i mean i *did* throw out my dl360 g8 because it succ'd too much power but i do have a supermicro 813m nas unit based on a x11 mobo. but i don't really lab work shit at home anymore since i have a real lab at work.

anyway i fucking hate how much all the used shit costs, we must kill the altman inshallah

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>>109030390 (OP)
Should I set up Dynamic DNS in UniFi or Nginx Proxy Manager?

Also is Cloudflare alright or is there a more /g/-approved provider?

>>109046623
I don't like the 3d printed minirack guys, but I worry more about the people dumping 5 figures on full rack setups that they have no use for, just cause they have money burning a hole in their pockets. There's an absolute epidemic of Redditors buying new hobbies and driving prices through the roof.
There was some kino there recently with that retard trying to set up a commercial data center in his basement though.

>>109046970
One of those isn't DDNS?

>>109046970
The NPM settings are for DNS challenge based certs.

>>109037703
most people just cluster 100-200€ tier refurbished HP or Lenovo SFF computers. maybe your build is reasonable, but it seems like quite the upgrade coming from a pi4.

>>109047443
>>109047468
My bad, genuinely clueless about this. I want to know a way to access homelab services away from home.
I already have a WireGuard setup, but if the ISP gives us a new IP then I would have to change it on everybody's client which has been a hassle so far, and it would be worse if it happens away from home.

>>109037703
"investing" in AI stuff, if you're not going to make money off of it right now, is really stupid, this generation of hardware was not meant for AI, it'll take 3 generations for AI workload to make sense on consumer hardware
if you want to play around with AI buy one of those strix halo 128gb vram mini pcs instead

>>109047627
You could use Tailscale to get around that

>>109035771
what exactly are you running on your homelab currently?

>>109034211
>>109047412
It'll never be a huge hobby.
One thing I've noticed is that is there is a growing portion of people who just get absolutely pissed at the idea of having a regular sized desktop. I assume it's because they live in a shoebox or shared housing.
That automatically puts them out of any interest in having in additional PC for home lab stuff, much less anything full sized.
It's at the point where just having HDDs in a Synology is being seen as something only the privileged have access to because those people can hide it away somewhere.

>>109047412
>There's an absolute epidemic of Redditors buying new hobbies and driving prices through the roof.
Not a single atom of me believes that a couple of Redditors overspending is enough to move any needles.

>>109047853
They overspend and recommend that others overspend, and their moronic opinions get written into the LLM search summaries and before you know it the baseline for getting into Mongolian basket weaving is to fly to Mongolia and pay tribute to get adopted into a tribe so that you can eventually inherit 1/3 of someone's grandma's loom.

>>109047853
It does drive up the price of certain items in some hobbies.

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>>109047412
what pisses me off about miniracks is they drop all the flexibility of a 19" rack and become a shitty cosplay instead. most of those 10" racks could fit on a single 19" rack shelf (who remembers those NUC+switch clusters that used to be on fleabay?) i mean shit even picrel is a better use of space
>>109047853
i think if marketers get wind that retards can be duped into paying more for chinesium with a different logo slapped on it, there will absolutely be price inflation

>>109045212
>Of course, >4GB files can't natively exist in the FAT32 HDD.
This matters because some files have to be larger than 4 GB. I wish each file ever was smaller than 2 GB, but that's not the reality. WARC files created by grab-site are usually 5 GB in size, and there's many files in torrents which are individually larger than 4 GB, such as this one:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9671fb0855c7931fe98f03f7612c18010fb10121&xl=1163397208748

That's 1 terabyte of full images from 4chan in a total of 701 Content Addressable Archive files. The 1,105,578 image+video files contained in the CAR files are on average 1 MB in size; some of the .car files are larger than 4 GB.

>I wonder which is better: FAT32 or NTFS? I'm guessing FAT32.
Slop said:
>Reliability: NTFS — journaling, better corruption resistance; FAT32 has no journaling.
>File size: NTFS — supports huge files; FAT32 max single file = 4 GB minus 1 byte.
>Volume size: NTFS — supports very large volumes; FAT32 practical limit ≈ 2 TB (Windows tools restrict creation to 32 GB).
>[...]
A FAT32 partition has a max size of 2 TB, seriously?

>>109048515
fat32 was created eons ago dude, not sure what you want out of it. you're not going to be able to take your windows storage spaces drives and pop them into a synology and just magically get the synology to reads the filesystem. (i forget if syno uses zfs or btrfs by default)
you will need a place to hold your data if you're re-using the physical drives for the syno. or just buy new drives.

>>109045248
>Live version was undeleted in 2026: neat.
Rather, it was undeleted sometime between 2024-02-27 and 2026-06-25.

>>109046492
11.5 USD/TB in 2026? And I thought it was a deal to buy a used 4-TB HDD at 12.5 USD/TB in 2026.

>Damn that's nice. I bought a few 20TB drives in feb of 25 and they were $230 each.
Used or new?

>>109034211
no. those are youtubers. they're getting into homelabbing because their hobby (youtubing) is requiring them to store shitloads of data and learn more about computing than they ever really wanted to.
It's like how youtubers are always benchmark computers against video editing. Who the fuck edits videos? It's all self-interest.

>>109048555
I'm not seriously considering using FAT32, just curious. I'm not this anon >>109030944 whom I'm not sure is in this thread anymore.

There's also exFAT (FAT64?) which I guess works in both Windows and Linux. Not sure, but I think it's newer and better.

>>109048555
>(i forget if syno uses zfs or btrfs by default)
Should be Btrfs.

>>109047627
Check out no-ip.
Install the docker container (or whatever manager you use) and you have a free DDNS service.

>>109047412
>There was some kino there recently with that retard trying to set up a commercial data center in his basement though
Source?
>>109047916
kek
>>109043333
Might be your filesystem.

is copyparty the best file server manager? I like the idea of never dealing with SMB troubleshooting ever again.
do you guys use anything else?

>>109036837
The time is whatever I say it is

>>109048917
>Source?
https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1u21k5g/home_data_center/

>>109040989
>>109045212
There's a third file system that works on both Windows and Linux: exFAT. But all the FATs have fewer features and less corruption resistance than NTFS. Generally, exFAT (one file table) < FAT32 (two copies) < NTFS (advanced journaled FS just like ext4). Besides, you'll probably want to switch to a Linux FS anyway once you make the jump.

>>109030390 (OP)
Has anyone here set up a telephone PBX or done anything regarding VOIP? I'd like to set up a landline telephone running through an ATA as well as maybe having a couple phones throughout the house as a local intercom system.

How would I achieve this?

>>109049149
my advice: use a hosted sip provider like callcentric and don't run a pbx yourself. I've swapped some landlines to a little grandstream sip box + ported number to callcentric and it works great.
Unless you want to learn a pbx, of course. Telephony is pretty aids.

>>109049149
I installed FreePBX and got some old Cisco 502Gs. Create Extensions in FreePBX and copy the info like IP address and password over into the phones.
PBX shit is wayyy too detailed and complicated I'm using maybe only 5% of all features.

>>109049149
the most voip thing i've done to date was to buy a complete PBX with all addon daughterboards filled for $12.5 on a closing down sale
it's still there...
unused...

>>109048957
anyone?

>>109049636
I use nfs, smb, sshfs, copyparty, https, pastebin, Nextcloud, WebDAV.
I think the best is probably sso WebDAV or sshfs

>>109049236
I might want to play with pbx stuff because it seems cool but I'd probably just start with a landline, adapter, and voip number

>>109049369
what have you used it for so far?

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China
Stop
I'm resisting the urge to see if this is some sort HTPX/SSI-EEB hole pattern

>>109047748
>it's because they live in a shoebox or shared housing
and they will spin it as
>le efficient computing, look 7 idle watts on my shitbox
nah nigga you live on your mum's couch and if those watts affect the electricity bill in any significant way she will kick you out

>>109050377
Buy this and 5x 5060ti 16g for local llm

how do we cope for the STILL rising prices?

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>>109050418
I thought about it.
Dual system case like a Thermaltake W200/AX1000 with it on the other side
Pic related was my first idea but the whole board is a lot more elegant and cheaper.

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Tape drive storage temperature to prevent degradation: 60 to 77 degrees F. Something about that:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ts4500-tape-library?topic=planning-environmental-specifications

If I bought tape drives, they'd be somewhere which reaches like 82 degrees F max. I'm thinking that overheating is worse than underheating. That place may drop to around 55 degrees F. I may still buy a tape drive, as I have some ideas of how to effectively use it.

>>109049022
OK, so NTFS is better than FAT32, and FAT32 is better than exFAT. Best solution for that guy would be to use btrfs >>109041033 which is news to me: didn't know that Windows now supports that filesystem.

>>109048594
>Who the fuck edits videos?
True. Besides me doing basic tasks with FFmpeg, I don't need to edit videos in an advanced way where a GUI would be helpful. About the most advanced stuff I do is crop a video with ffmpeg.

>>109048917
>Might be your filesystem.
its running on windows, so exfat or ntfs?

Do you guys use rootless docker?

>>109050933
no we use podman, aka rootless docker

>>109050936
I don't know if it's worth the effort to convert everything over. Plus dealing with shit breaking because it seems like nobody actually officialy supports podman.

>>109050955
yeah if you’re using docker to just run prebuilt containers and assume they’re all not gonna exploit root level access then it probably doesn’t matter.
if you are already building your own images or using dockerfiles then podman isn’t any different.

>>109049011
Pretty funny, but I do fancy the idea of one day setting up a fully self-hosted private cloud
Spinning it off into a side hustle to earn a few bucks would be nice too

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>>109030390 (OP)
Sandboxie > Docker

>>109050840
Could be, if they're network shares to wherever jellyfin is running. But otherwise it should work natively with ntfs and even exfat I think.

>>109049011
>retard buys two-post racks
KEK

>>109051643
nah theyre not network shares, theyre the user folders. as for now the 15 min update cycle is "good enough" but its annoying and ill have to teach to refresh the server automatically

china flooding the market with cheap ram and storage when

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>>109050456
Masturbation.

>>109051920
Probably not anytime soon.

I want to build a new server and ordered a 32 GB DDR5 kit this week because I have very little confidence in things getting better anytime soon. Reading https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/lexar-regional-manager-says-that-ram-prices-are-expected-to-double-by-the-end-of-the-year-discounts-and-stabilized-prices-result-from-distributors-getting-rid-of-old-stock-or-sourcing-products-from-other-regions didn't help.

>>109049881
>sshfs
NTA, but I use sshfs in qBittorrent. I have a webUI at some local IP for one computer with a save path over sshfs to another computer.

When doing this, permissions matter. I currently do this:
$ sudo sshfs -o allow_other user@10.0.0.35:/mnt/a1 /mnt/sshfs/a1

But it may also work if you do this:
make /mnt/a1 owned by root and not normal user, then run $ sshfs -o allow_other ...

The idea is that the sshfs save path will deactivate when the ssh connection eventually fails. Otherwise, qBittorrent will start writing to /mnt/sshfs/a1/ when that folder is no longer a working sshfs mount. Thinking of trying to do the other method as it doesn't involve usage of the root user.

>>109040989
Archiving+related thread is dead, so now where am I going to post this?:

YouTube comments are now searchable by Google search! They were not "indexed" a year or two ago, so this is a nice change. I did a search and found this comment:
>"He's making for the village."
>"Alright, we'll head him off at the precipice."
>
>These lines never get old.
on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRmTdPyyRZc [Embed]

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What do you guys use your servers / services in your LAN for?

I was using http://10.0.0.36:8000/HLS.html to watch some "starter anime"

via this command:
>$ cat /mnt/sshfs/.../One.Piece.English.Dubbed.720p.Season\(1-9\)Ep\(1-287\).\$M@nI\$/One\ Piece\ Season\ 4\ Ep\(93-130\)/One\ Piece\ -\ 094\ -\ The\ Heroes\ \ Reunion\!\ His\ Name\ is\ Fire\ Fist\ Ace_2.mkv | pv -L 300K | ffmpeg -hide_banner -f matroska -i pipe:0 -c:v libx264 -profile:v baseline -pix_fmt yuv420p -vf "scale=-1:720" -c:a aac -b:a 192k -ar 48000 -ac 2 -muxdelay 0 -mpegts_flags +resend_headers -f flv rtmp://localhost/live/stream

>>109052707
Correction:
make /mnt/sshfs/a1 owned by root and not normal user

>>109052734
>What do you guys use your servers / services in your LAN for?
File storage, Plex, torrenting, music streaming, manga management, website monitoring, personal accounting, home automation, RSS aggregation, data collection.

I'm building a house and want to wire it up for my servers, PoE cameras etc.
I saw 900ft of CAT6a S/FTP solid 23AWG for sale for $60, is this the shit to use?
I used to crimp shit years ago, but apparently this shit is a PITA.
Any tips or recs?

5-TB HDD in one of my server computers has been powered on for 1.5 years and now has I/O errors. It's failing. smartctl says this about said ext4 drive:
>sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdc =
>Reallocated_Sector_Ct ... 4632
>Power_On_Hours ... 12988
>Current_Pending_Sector ... 139

Ever since I started using that HDD in that computer, I planned for it to fail eventually. However, it ended up having some rare and semi-rare data on it.

I have multiple methods in place for syncing the data to other drives, but the methods aren't good enough. They weren't consistent enough and didn't run automatically as cronjobs or something (running once every week for example). Lesson to be learned: schemes for syncing data must be hardcore if you don't want to eventually have to figure out what data is rare and what data is already synced.

(I already have another drive, a mostly-full 500-GB SSD, in that computer which can replace the failing drive.)

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It's getting scary bros
Some used 3TB drives I bought from eBay are pretty much at 80k hours. Bought them at 40k hours and witnessed them reset at 60k hours

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What's your solution for images you just download from 4chan or really anywhere?

I've sorta lost my way as someone who has been on the internet for a long time. I used to download everything and dump it into folders. moved to hydrus network, but i never was self hosting any centralized location to dump images so i just sorta stopped caring at a certain point. Now that I've got my own centralized server...it would be nice to once again just start saving whatever images I find on the internet
>cool things
>anime girls
>reaction images
>funny shit
but there's a lot of options there now and honestly I'm just curious what you guys are doing to preserve your pile of gold.

>still just plain ass folders on your server
>Hydrus Network
>Some other image platform?

Are IronWolf drives worth the cost savings or should I stick to reliable WD Red? Fuck these prices btw.

>>109039643
What's your point? That $200 a year is somehow a lot?

>>109054522
for a 60w light bulb? yes retard

>>109054533
For a server, obviously.

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>>109039643
>$0.4/kw
but why

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>>109054675

>>109054270
I use immich, never tried hydrus. Immich classification isn't that bad honestly, it may take a couple of searches but i can usually eventually find what I'm looking for. But it's probably not as good as something like hydrus, it's just most of my images are 3d so i wanted something that could do faces and also regular photos. And i didn't want to do any tagging myself.

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what do you guys think? I want to run a surveillance system with frigate and ai object detection with an ai accelerator card and facial recognition + ReID for fun, and also maybe some extras like jellyfin and ftp and keep them isolated with docker

>>109054774
>an ai accelerator card
which one

>>109054774
>keep them isolated with docker
refer to op image

Just realized I'm a fucking retard and dockhand can totally track and handle docker files without requiring moving it into its own database.

Think dockhand won for me, bros. Great interface.

>>109054983
Google coral

>>109054270
At the moment I'm just dumping art into a giant directory. Reaction images go into a directory where I've tried using OS tags, but it's kinda ass.

>>109054284
I bought a WD Red and an IronWolf for my NAS when I built it, since I wanted to minimise the risk of two drives failing at the same time. The IronWolf failed like 20 months in or something. Definitely didn't make me wanna pay premium for them.

At the moment I'm just shucking, since it's the cheapest way to add storage. Currently I only have one redundant drive, but the plan is to go to two drives when I build my new server.

>>109054270
I use a few different techniques. Something useful is if you are able to stop thinking about the images you get as "a big pile of images" and start cutting them out into different channels depending on what you intend to do with them as soon as you get them. You largely automate that first step or make simple changes to your patterns of obtaining images.
For art, or anything that is available on a booru, it has to be Hydrus or something similar. Not retaining the tags is just a monumental waste. They are the most valuable information you can retain alongside an image to keep them sorted. Hierarchal is not as good as tag based for almost all uses of images, and boorus put in many hours of work from their users to make that useable.
If you have multiple types of image that can come from a booru, put them into different Hydrus file services to further separate them. They probably have different tagging standards applied on the source site so it's not great to intermingle them.
For 4chan images, I use a browser extension that allows you to download files to different folders based on matching the URL to regex. Each images goes in Downloads/4chan/{board}, and for what I use them for, that's sufficient.
Everything else goes into a download folder at Downloads/chromium/{year}/{month}/{date}. It doesn't really make sense to folder them up like that rather than just sorting my Downloads by creation date, but it does mean I don't have to render however many thumbnails every time I want a single file.
You could put every non-tagged image into something like Immich and use their CLIP model (or whatever is best these days) to get some tags on there. It won't have as many tags as a booru would, but it's better than nothing.
If you have heard about the PTR for Hydrus, I would forget about pursuing that. The tag coverage is extremely low, and the taggers are held to no standard. I have seen people arguing with each other by editing the tags back and forth. It's stupid.

>>109052805
>website monitoring
>data collection
elaborate please, what type of monitoring and what data

>>109055628
It's not really that interesting. It's mostly just random crap that I'm interested in. For example I track how much time I waste playing video games.

>>109055639
>I track how much time I waste playing video games.
so does steam

>>109055654
Steam only tracks Steam games.

>>109055665
Steam also tracks non-steam games if you add them

I've decided to stop resisting vim/neovim after using linux for the last 15 years bros. Wish me luck. I'm gonna learn it.

>>109055800
It does not.

>>109055801
Learn helix if you don't want to get sucked down a vortex of endless tinkering and plugins

Are there any good youtube clones for archiving videos and channels? Obviously yt-dlp just werks but being able view it like yt and preserve playlists for stuff like courses would be nice.

>>109055818
I'm more interested in nvim because of how bog standard of a text editor it is. I don't mind playing with plugins as needed, but i'm just starting basic.

I was a docker contrarian for the longest time, but once I understood it and began using it, it's simply the best.

besides a big server for VMs and a media server using ZFS, what services would need a lot of ram to use?
stuff like file server/nas and firewalls don't need more than 8GB of ram, I struggle to know where all the ram is going apart from endlessly spinning up more and more VMs.

>>109056226
inference, diffusion, identification, etc
anything in the last few years that is eating memory. I think the first thing I used a lot of memory for was yolo (you only look once) for identification on security cameras.

>>109052734
>kanban / personal management
>notes
>manage chatbots
>record camwhores
>gen ai slop porn locally
>vibecode locally
>erp locally
>torrent
>music streaming
>file storage
>ci/cd chatbots
>git
>syncthing

>>109056226
I'm finding a few services that I wouldn't expect are eating like half a gif of ram
>Tandoor
>Paperless
I think some of these larger databasing services seem like they canchew up a lot of ram. That being said, I've not had it turn into a huge ordeal, and I'm presuming SWAP will keep me healthy, but still kinda annoying either way.

>>109056226
Are you running out of RAM yourself and not understanding where it's all going? Or is this a question about why other people have so much RAM and what they use it for?

>>109056519
second option

>>109056226
Delicious page files.

>>109056612
Tools for compiling/building software can eat up a lot of RAM, and that's a pretty common use case for dev homelabbers. Also a lot of people simply have more than they need, they just got extra for futureproofing when prices were good. I wish I had bought an extra 32gb when it was dirt cheap.

is there a general for the media nerds? I remember hearing that av1 quality was terrible in comparison to h265 a while ago and so the media nerds would stay in h265 and I was wondering if that's still the case.
because when it comes to making a media server I think one of the most important things is to ponder today is if the CPU can transcode in AV1 natively or not but if AV1 is as bad as people used to say I could just use a 6th gen intel CPU because those can do h265 iirc.
Also been thinking if it's worth waiting a few years for AV2 or h266 CPUs and it they're going to be good or not.

>>109056930
don’t bother av1 is for really stingy bandwidth. if you’re streaming 4k and you dont have the bandwidth for it then that’s a bigger problem.
if you’re taking about archival, just saving your media, av1 wouldn’t be worth it either just because… why would you do that

>>109057021
it's about long term planning, if AV1 was revolutionary like they said it was going to be then everything would be steering towards it at light speed and in 3~4 years you'd kick yourself for not having an av1 transcoding cpu.
it seems to be that they failed at it and so media will largely stay at h264 h265 domain as it is now tho.
I was wondering if things had improved but apparently not, maybe AV2 will be good then, but I don't expect AV2 CPUs until, idk, 2030?

>>109056226
>stuff like file server/nas and firewalls don't need more than 8GB of ram
Upgrading my Synology from 4 GB to 20 GB was a massive improvement in basically everything I did.

>>109056226
BTRFS deduplication and LVM caching can each eat quite a lot of RAM, because they scale linearly with how much storage you have.

>>109057051
Did they fail? It seems that YouTube is mostly serving AV1 these days so they must be seeing some important advantage in it.

>>109057695
failed for archivists and people who favor quality over space

>>109050835
>didn't know that Windows now supports that filesystem
https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
You can even install Windows on btrfs and it'll work.

>>109058098
>install Windows on btrfs
don't think that's possible, windows installation will format the drive to ntfs

duckduckgo fucking disconnects me all the time because I'm running pihole and blocking all their spying shit and it's infuriating, I need to get onto learning searxng but I don't have a server for it

>NAS suddenly isn't booting
>yank everything out
>still nothing
Fuck it, I'm taking it to micro center because I don't want to know if it's the RAM dying and I'm gonna get them to do cable management.

>>109058569
Just get a cloud subscription at that point.

>>109058684
RAM is still cheaper than that, considering my storage

>>109058397
wym you don’t have the server for it? you have no server? it’s not like it takes a lot of hardware

>>109058855
I run pihole on a tiny arm sbc, nanopi whatever, 2gb ram only, maybe I could set it up there

>>109058866
yeah it’s probably going to be less quick with responses but it’ll work

If you're like me and have like 20 HDDs sitting around, bitrot may be a concern for you. I think the main concern is redundancy and the cost of it (vs. the cost of losing things), but bit rot can also become a problem.

Even if you have a NAS or rack and can address 100 or more terabytes and have all of that online at once, bitrot is a continual concern over the years. If you have ZFS mirror pools, this sorta fixes the problem if you have them running and they automatically scrub once every two months or whatever the frequency is. A non-local solution would be Filecoin where you pay crypto for miner(s) to store your data and they hash all of the terabytes they store every single day. More of an aggressive cryptographic proof than ZFS's lazy or relatively infrequent checking. Other thoughts on that = bottom of this post: >>109035841 →

Unlike ext4 where the drive eventually has a bunch of I/O errors, and by the time you find out it's already too late, ZFS will detect and report them sooner. Run "zpool status" if you notice I/O is slower than normal.

Pretty sure you can mirror drives like this: "sudo cat /dev/sdc | sudo tee /dev/sdd >/dev/null". I know ZFS can send and receive snapshots; I wonder if there's a way to mirror one drive to another but you don't end up with a mirror pool (so the same result as "cat /dev/sdc ...") but using zfs tools.

>>109054774
Price of that 6-TB HDD is around 66 USD/TB. I only ever paid that much when buying an SSD.

bit rot wouldn't be an issue if it wasn't for the AI bubble, HDDs were getting cheaper and cheaper every year, 16TBs drives were actually quite cheap and you can compress and reencode everything to 20% of their original sizes, but the AI bubble ruined it, hopefully not for long

>>109059330
>Run "zpool status" if you notice I/O is slower than normal.
To see if it's scrubbing or not.

>...mirror drives like this: "sudo cat /dev/sdc... but using zfs tools.
Why use zfs tools and not cat / dd / tee? So you don't end up with two completely identical pools with the same name. You want them to have the exact same data but they should be recognized and addressed as different pools. The process would look like this:
>$ sudo zfs snapshot -r pool@replicate
>$ sudo zpool create targetpool /dev/sdX
>$ sudo zfs send -R pool@replicate | sudo zfs receive -F targetpool
>$ sudo zfs list -r targetpool
>$ sudo zfs destroy -r pool@replicate # if it worked, destroy the snapshot on source if you want
>$ sudo zfs destroy pool # caution
Why send zfs pool from one hdd to another and delete the source? Partly because my source HDD has unfixable file corruptions which I think aren't storage medium corruptions.

I wonder what would happen if there was a power outage or interruption to the send+receive process. I've created a ZFS mirror pool in the past (one HDD wasn't mirror for like a year then I added another HDD to the pool); I could do things differently this time. For now, I may have to skip on redundancy and keeping living in a sinful state of no redundancy.

>>109030431
I'm genuinely starting to think that HDDs are a waste of money. I have two Samsung drives, one nvme and one m.2 ssd that have been running non-stop for 10 years.

You can get something like the Beelink ME mini N150 and do periodic back-ups to a USB HDD or rsync to Google Drive or a better service.

>>109059431
I think HDDs are on their way out and basically only make sense for cold storage at this point, because they started making SSDs with 256TB space now that use less power than HDDs, over the next 10~ years it'll trickle down to consumers and then HDDs, yeah, only for offline cold storage

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>proxmox

>>109059538
>SSDs with 256TB space
A single drive with more than 200 TB of storage capacity would be fantastic and a game changer; however, I think it's still priced in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars range.

>>109054270
>but there's a lot of options there now and honestly I'm just curious what you guys are doing to preserve your pile of gold.
I sometime try to make it part of meaningful things. Support and/or pay for those things. I even sometimes pay ETH for one-time payments to put files on a blockchain forever. The thing I've been using has been sucking for the past ~4 days (the gateways portion of it). There's one terabyte of 4chan images in this torrent for example >>109048515 go and download+share that. Many reaction images and so on in it.

>>109052707
It was recently found that Finnish imageboard Ylilauta was excluded from web.archive.org. I was thinking of that Futaba-style imageboard in relation to this Swedish-language torrent:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:eb2f44586e94687ea0c26b51d13cb6fb3b6320ee

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>>109060464
>SSDs with 256TB
See:
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/sandisk-unveils-colossal-new-256tb-ssd-with-new-ultraqlc-flash-memory-enterprise-grade-ssds-for-high-density-storage-also-come-in-128tb

That article said "Sandisk's 128TB and 256TB SSDs will ship in the first half of 2026." but it didn't say how much they cost. They only sell to "enterprise" now and not consumers, as far as I can tell.

>try to make it part of meaningful things
With this I don't suggest any website (even archive.org/details/ isn't trustworthy) or booru website. Even the better booru sites suck and will disappoint you. You must self-host the images with your own IPFS gateway or something. The term "self hosting" is stupid. It used to be just called "hosting" before everything was so damn centralized.

>excluded from web.archive.org
Ylilauta spurdo sparde fugging gone:
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=List_of_websites_excluded_from_the_Wayback_Machine&type=revision&diff=62679&oldid=62546

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>>109060464
>one-time ETH payment to put a file on a blockchain forever
>The thing I've been using has been sucking for the past ~4 days (the gateways portion of it)
Nice, they're back to working now (I guess there was some network congestion):
https://penmr.io.vn/raw/DHCPZldXNUVAnp74K3hy0bMyvBuw_USLxyeHtrw_omk
https://nobodycare.space/raw/dBC-WTOHMsx_F9X6QbdclgnthEGEZOHq2pm7SYCUnGs

That's pages 1 and 2 as described by this post: >>109036584 → (picrel)

Yes there is no "cloud". Yes it's just other peoples' computers. However that sometimes removes the subtly to things. Yes, you should probably have everything locally no matter what is happening remotely. And what you have locally could be accessible from nginx, Apache, Tomcat, or whatever.

The point I'm making is that some cooperative storage clouds are better than others.

>>109060510
>Sandisk's UltraQLC 256TB NVMe SSD comes in a U.2 form-factor and uses the company's custom new multi-core controller, custom firmware, as well as 2Tb BiCS8 3D QLC NAND memory. In addition to the 256TB model, the company also announced its SN670 SSD that relies on the same UltraQLC platform.
It's NVMe, so not just SSD pricing.

Right now, I read that you can buy a 16-TB NVMe for 16,000. At 1000 USD/TB, the 256-TB NVMe SSD would cost more than 256,000 dollars. Unless you're a multi-millionaire or billionaire, you aren't going to be buying this new hardware.

>>109060631
I meant "subtlety". (And whatever other typos I wrote ITT: imagine they don't exist.)

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>>109060631
>Tomcat
I recently heard that that's number 9 in total popularity when comparing web servers. I don't think I've ever seen an Apache Tomcat server in any website. I just see
>Apache/2.4.58 (Ubuntu) Server at 10.0.0.39 Port 443
or whatever nginx says.

>>109060687
>256-TB NVMe SSD
At the low-end of 180 USD/TB, it would still cost more than 46,080 USD. (At that price you could buy 1.843 PB as HDDs.)

>>109056331
>gen ai slop porn locally
>vibecode locally
>erp locally
What model and hardware are you using for this, and how good is it?
>>109060687
>ultraQLC
What's the endurance on these?

>>109060687
>U.2
how hard is it for a consumer to get a mobo with u.2

>>109062120
>hw
R7-5700G, 64GB, 3090 + 3060
>vibecoding model
qwen3-coder
>erp model
dark desires (i think it's qwen its base model)
>vid porn model
wan2.2 + loras
>pic porn model
sdxl / illustrious
>how good
pretty good for pic,vid and erp but its slow for vibecoding due to offloading, but it works, i don't mind having to wait

>>109060732
Tomcat isn't just a web server like Apache HTTP or nginx, it's a Java application server. It's used mainly for enterprise applications with web interfaces, which are typically internal to companies, so you won't typically find random websites on the open Internet use it.

a server, at home!?

>>109047853
Usually its a youtube video that highlights an untapped market with low prices that moves everything for the worse.

>>109062161
You basically have to use PCIe to U.2 adapters.
Cheapest will be the boards that go directly into a pcie slot and carries a few U.2 ssds, but you need bifurication on the motherboard.
If you want to do more than one (m2 or pcie x4 slot) and don't have bifurication, then you're going to need a controller card to break out enough cables.

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How would you backup /var/lib/tor/ from one computer to another?

rsync over ssh results in permission denied errors unless you add the contents of source /root/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys in target computer then run this at source computer:
>$ sudo rsync -a /var/lib/tor/ comp2@10.0.0.47:/home/user/b/comp1/var/lib/tor/

However, that messes up the owner and group info. Everything in the /var/lib/tor folder is owned by debian-tor and in the debian-tor group (not the normal user group). Everything in backup folder /home/user/b/comp1/var/lib/tor is owned by normal user and not debian-tor.

A solution would be to run this -- "sudo tar ... /var/lib/tor ..." -- to create a tarball of that folder. All of the owner and group information would be preserved. I also don't like this method. It seems that there's no perfect solution. Maybe the sudo rsync method + sidecar files which contain the metadata. Or, use the tar method and encrypt the tarball in a .7z file by using 7z.

When dealing with root-owned or non-normal-user-owned data, things become a mess. Much easier to backup non-protected files. Another solution would be the rsync method and the target drive has full disk encryption on it, but I don't feel like using FDE.

Anyone else use Linux to expose localhost to the Internet via Tor? Thoughts on that? Here's picrel Linux-related image:
>If Operating Systems were Airlines... - 1995-11-30 email
>page 1, source file: https://noblesilence.site/raw/1eHmG3vLcKkHBP3nGud-zeWP3rWs9N8NPyOaXDQFF0o
>page 2, source file: https://chezss.store/raw/HNegadVP6aR-gsszLc8wCZKZDc7sC4S9ByFNPer0yWc

>>109037338
>meganta
lmfao

>>109054270
>images you just download from 4chan
use case for storing this trash?

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>>109066333

>>109062178
Damn, it sounds so nice. I really want to get into local ai but i simply can't afford the hardware at the moment

>>109066272
usecase for backing up /var/lib/tor?

>>109054270
I group mine primarily by board and secondarily by thread/topic or general nature of posts that would use that image

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>>109067110
ebussy trolling aside, you want backup(s) so that your public+private keys corresponding to your .onion domain name isn't lost. Whoever has the private key controls whatever .onion site. People may want to encrypt their backups of such private keys. Otherwise, if glowies go through your devices, they will try to grab all the unencrypted private keys that they can. Behead CIA Niggers.

In general, the world needs more backups. Here's a backup of attached pic ("How to do a swastika with your body ?"): full version, not cropped to 9,999 px high
https://dimori.space/raw/SKODCzkFcyct9zwFifQPynf4d-m4Akmwatp2e3PWfRo

>>109066272
rsync doesn't preserve groups here because your target user is not part of those groups
adding your user to the group wouldn't be wise i guess
you could:
1. give debian-tor user of the destination host a home directory with an authorized ssh key, THEN use debian-tor as the destination user of the rsync command - it will now preserve owner and group
2. use sudo rsync on the destination host with
--rsync-path="sudo rsync"
the user used for this will need to have a sudoers entry permitting him to use rsync as superuser w/o password

[general complaint regarding extortionate hardware prices]

Anyone knows what should I run of I want to emulate games on my server and play it over think client?

>>109068131
autism

>>109068127
Shit's fucked up.

>>109068131
pointless endeavor unless your server can encode faster than realtime and then still you'll always have some latency - the one advantage retroslop has over new games

>>109068131
you can try software like parsec but I assume steam remote play or whatever it’s called would be about as good now, so you just add retro arch on there as a non steam game.

>>109070021
How hard emulating retrogames on server?
>>109070070
I can use sunshine+retroacrch but I want something to run in docker.

>>109070164
make a dockerfile then genius

>>109067827
Ok. I could do #1 and probably also #2 (didn't know about --rsync-path before now).

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Is grafana still the best self hosted way to graph time series data or is there something else out there?

>>109053390
So that Internet-public-service HDD is failing, but it's not dead yet.

rsync repeatedly disappointed me over the years. Say that you run this:
>$ rsync -a --info=progress2 /mnt/a1/something/ comp2@10.0.0.49:/home/user/b/a1/something/

One of the files has a size of 50 GB. rsync detects and I/O error at 49 GB into the file. Therefore, rsync deletes the partially-copied 50-GB file at destination. Not great!

The HDD is failing rsync! I don't need to run some other command; those will make it completely fail sooner! I don't want to do any more reads and writes than needed.

Fixes = the following. Not sure if --partial will do what I want:
>$ rsync --partial -a --info=progress2 /src/ /dest/
>$ ssh comp1@10.0.0.52 "cat file_with_io_errors" > file_with_io_errors # could also use tac then combine with the file from cat

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>>109073845
Use case (one of multiple):
You are dealing with data from BitTorrent. In that case other peers might have the 2% that you lost due to I/O errors because you used a cheap scam external HDD from Best Buy (bought c. 2022).

Typos fixed:
"rsync detects an I/O error", "some other commands"

Attached image: screenshot of a webpage in some torrent indexing website. Backup:
https://dymwizard.space/raw/XQsP8FewAgHFyfX9wTqQ3L3mcsPvkL114wKniQKIbfc

>>109043366
>Now Best Buy probably reverted back to the rip off price of 24 USD/TB (or more expensive).
Just a guess, but it turned out to be spot on:
>https://web.archive.org/web/20250725030411/https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/wd-easystore-20tb-usb-3-0-desktop-external-hard-drive-wdbama0200hbk-nesn-black/16057625
>20 TB = 484.99
That's 24.25 USD/TB. In the past I bought that product from a physical Best Buy store for
>recipe from Best Buy: 350 USD without tax for 20 TB (was 450 USD but there was a "Sale Discount"). That's 17.5 USD/terabyte.

A 20-TB Seagate HDD cost 350 USD:
>https://web.archive.org/web/20260207083615/https://www.bestbuy.com/product/seagate-expansion-20tb-external-usb-3-0-desktop-hard-drive-with-rescue-data-recovery-services-black/J37C5H5XXK
That's 17.5 USD/terabyte.

>>109073845
rsync's --partial worked the way I wanted. Once you get this error:
> 6,340,060,575 176% 7.16MB/s ??:??:?? rsync: [sender] read errors mapping "/path/filename_here": Input/output error (5)
> 6,775,502,087 189% 712.59kB/s 2:34:45 (xfr#99, to-chk=102/104)
>ERROR: filename_here failed verification -- update discarded.
it doesn't delete the partial file at destination once the process finishes.

I recommend "rsync --partial" to get data off of a failing drive over ssh. Unless GNU ddrescue can be made to work over ssh.

>>109072605
idk but zabbix is trash

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so what's the situatio with kemono replacement? where do i scrape now. it doesn't even fucking download old stuff

>>109074987
You've been scraping Kemono?

>>109075068
hoarding. and to answer my question - pawchive.st even seems to have new posts.

>>109052707
>Archiving+related thread is dead, so now where am I going to post this?:
It's back up!:
>>109075434 →

Now with
>CURRENT EVENT: archive.today is owned by a jihadist or some shit.

>>109054757
The problem with Immich is it doesn't actually do any sorting, sure you can search based on ML tags, but that's all you can do. Not that anon but I am also looking for a way to actually "sort" all my shit into different folders. Hydrus looked promising but getting GPU accelerated hashing working was a pain so I gave up. I want immich's ML models but the ability to use it to sort stuff into actual folders.
>>109056519
Pretty much just VMs. I run a few DB servers (or, did, haven't set them up again) for some things that eats a good amount of ram. I'm using about 50GB out of 64GB of my main hypervisor, 10GB of that is ARC (I have like 3.5TB in L2ARC so I don't use ARC that much), a good chunk is a windows server VM for games that are easier to host on windows, my *arr stack takes a good chunk because I have about 3k torrents active.
My other host has 32GB and is sitting at 14GB with some LXCs and an 8GB home assistant VM.
My main VM host *is* also my ZFS storage server, so that might have been better with 128GB but it's DDR5 so fuck that.

>>109059415
If all you care about for now is bitrot, you can set the ZFS copies to 2, it essentially mirrors the data on one disk. If you wanted to go more extreme with bitrot protection (depending on how much data you're storing) you could have 2+ offline disks, each with 2 copies of the data and scrub them with something like a 15 day offset (more or less half a month) so that you realistically only have a 15 day window where bitrot can fuck you up.
Treat it the same as a hypervisor quorum, have at least 3 copies of the data (counting a single mirror pool as 1) and then you should always have a consensus on which data is correct.

>>109064839
If you have a big enough case and can live with gen 3, sonnet does a dual m.2 x4 to PCIe x8 u.2 card
https://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusion-dual-u2-ssd/techspecs.html#techspecs
I have one in one of my systems, works well and has a switch so it doesn't require bifurcation.

>>109074644
Zabbix isn't compatible to grafana at all, zabbix is an infrastructure monitoring tool that happens to have graphs, grafana is a graphing tool that happens to have plugins for things that infrastructure monitoring tools can dump data in

>>109075076
>pawchive.st
oh hey nice I've been eyeing alternatives for a while. glad I caught this post reading through

retards actually bidding more per tb on used drives over just buying new, this is some conspiracy shit

>>109076784
>bid on your own auction
>???
>profit

>Roku are being bought out by Fox

I was thinking of maybe buying one of their streaming sticks, but if they're merging with fox then their time is limited.

What home server solutions are there to the living room streaming stick problem? I was thinking of getting an n100/n150 mini PC with a remote and putting libreElect OS on it, since Kodi has support for a lot of things and it comes preinstalled that should work right?
Its for my mom who likes to watch stuff on UK channel apps, we also have IPTV and an amazon firestick has worked great for years so far but eventually I'll need to upgrade so I want to get ahead of the problem.
>Just use a smart TV bro
No, they're full of ads

>>109077137
>I was thinking of getting an n100/n150 mini PC with a remote and putting libreElect OS on it
That's essentially your only option if you care about privacy and controlling your own stuff. I've heard the support for streaming services is spotty and limited if that's important to you.
Would also not recommend anything Roku makes, they're like the king of locked down adware. Apparently Apple boxes are the least intrusive option if you want something easy for users that just works with every subscription service.

>>109077137
ugoos am6b+ perhaps, running coreelec

>>109077137
I have an Apple TV 4K as my Plex client. Doesn't really have any ads, lower power usage, has enough CPU grunt for most media, good remote, HDMI-CEC shit.

>>109076784
>bidding more
>over just buying new
>this is some conspiracy shit
It's all types of items, any setting with bids, tech or not. Occam's razor applies, which is to say that it's simply retards with FOMO/gambling tendencies. Literally that simple. Maybe on eBay some unscrupulous sellers could be trying to trigger poorly set bidding automations to drive their own sale price up. As for local auction houses or such, it's once again retards who are caught up in the 'excitement' of bidding. If a seller on FB Marketplace tries to pit me against other buyers I tell them to pound sand. As for eBay just filter for "buy now" and forget about bidding, it's a fucking waste of time.
>is there any chance of a good deal on anything?
It's possible but you basically need to find hidden/poorly listed shit that no one else has found yet. Your best bet for any item is to trawl absolutely every item under a broad single keyword, e.g. DDR5/HDD/NVMe whatever it is, sort by lowest price and keep scrolling through until you find some shit buried. On the flip side you could also try searching exactly with model numbers, 'multi-word' or syntax based searches are also worthless. Either go broad or precise, those are your best bets. The same rules apply to Marketplace, doomscroll it instead of whatever other slop you waste time looking at, use the categories and just refresh a few times through the day.

>>109078033
>>109077447
>>109077353
Good posts, I'll look closer at Apple TV and the ugoos, I wanna use jellyfin and ideally tivimate or some other easy to use IPTV player + VPN.
I guess support for TV channel apps like ITV and such is going to be inconsistent at best on a mini PC setup. I've even heard some android boxes won't run the netflix app since they need to be "certified" to run it and load HD streams.

>>109030390 (OP)
I'm fucking done with FritzBox (INB4 Hans).
What VDSL+ Fiber Modem/Router/AP would you guys recommend to me?
Asked some LLMs, they recommended me:
>DrayTek Vigor 2866ax
>MikroTik hAP ax3
>Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra
Specs look good, but I'm not aware if the brands are alright?

>>109078999
Fritz!Box 5590

>>109079115
No. I have a 7590 and I'm fucking done with AVM.

>>109078999
chateau pro ax

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>>109030390 (OP)
>Got tired of watching film and shows on streaming sites.
>Felt a sense of ownership and one day for some reason decided to set up a Jellyfin server, maybe I'll let friends use it too.
>Bought a mini PC (HP Elitedesk G4 mini refurbished) after saving up some dosh.
>Installed Linux Ubuntu, distro didn't matter to me.
>Unfortunately am a tech-illiterate buffoon and don't know a thing about technology, computers, etc.
>Used almost exclusively AI and some videos here and there to help guide me on building Jellyfin server for media.
>Set up Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr, and Prowlarr on Docker Compose to torrent all media + Tailscale to maybe have frens use Jellyfin as well.
>Jellyfin + torrent works well for the most part.
>Unfortunately mini PC will run out of storage, which was expected.
>Not sure what to do about storage issue.
>Some recommendations about NAS with Raid, a DAS, or some other external storage. I don't know how TBs would be good for what I assume will be a rather large library.
Now I'm at a mental block and am not sure what to flail about doing next since I'm a shitter that knows fuck all about what the hell I'm doing, fuck all about anything tech related, and have mostly lucked my way into this Jellyfin thing.