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  • NAS decision paralysis

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  • First up... backups...

    You've got all your data on a single 8TB external drive?

    If you get lots of hardware, or stay the same, you'll still want need to get your data off that system and preferably out of the house for the 3 F's: fire / flood / feft (😉)

    At this point it might just be simpler to get online storage and upload it all... or a 2nd drive and just clone it.

    Now, you can breath as you change your system and oops, accidentally wipe the wrong drive... it's all offline elsewhere

    Next up, to help with decision paralisis; the software and hardware you choose are going to be related... TrueNAS is going to want a new mobo with loads of RAM for the ZFS on the drives... OpenMediaVault will work on small hardware (as well as bigger too...), so decide with your wallet on hardware first.

    Everything (worth considering) supports RAID - you'll want RAID1 if you only have 2 drives, RAID5 or 6 for many drives. If you use ZFS they modify the naming convention, but learn standard terminology first.

    I've tried it all, over the years, so expect to try something for a while, then ditch it for something else - another reason to have your data offline somewhere.

    I came back to a simple Arch linux box with 4 drives running btrfs 🙂

  • Where are you running your wireguard endpoint?

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  • The routers are running Arch? What hardware are they?

    I'm running pfSense as edge firewalls with a Fritzbox router as a bridge - no issues there, but would be interesting to replace that part too, if possible.

  • Holiday Upgrade Disasters

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  • Upgrading a family member's laptop while shooting the shit with everyone while drinking a beer or something is just fine. Don't need 100% focus, you're good there man.

    Yep, although I tend to avoid partition resizings whilst on the whisky 😉

  • Holiday Upgrade Disasters

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  • Nice. Yeah, that's a great idea for work.

    But, for personal stuff, this is often the only time available...

    I "had" to free up space (0 bytes free) on a woefully underpowered Win11 laptop for the father-in-law. I swear it was originally Win7, so it's been upgraded a couple of times, but no, Linux is a step too far for him... crawling Win11 is his wish...

    I'm now mid-upgrade for my Mum's laptop (Mint 21 --> 22), but with a full clonezilla backup image on standby!

    Ah, it's the "holidays"... for some...

  • Bazzite has seen a massive jolt in growth over the holiday season, surpassing 50k active users. The Fedora Atomic image has gained 38.8k users total in 2025 since it began counting in April 🥳

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  • Yeah, I'm the same, but if it's an easy way to get people into the warm embrace of Linux, then hopefully they'll look around and see other (Gen Purpose) distros exist.

  • Holiday Upgrade Disasters

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  • And you did a backup first, right? 😉

    How big's the array? If it's PBs, then I can understnad it, but GBs... I agree, it should be done by now...

    ... unless it's still online and being written to by a database...?

  • Holiday Upgrade Disasters

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  • Yeah, my Pi Zeros are bettter on Trixie.

    My proxmox was also an adhoc, lets-see-what-happens-if... build, but I think I'm going to drop proxmox for Incus as I can script that in Ansible too

  • help made mistake with export and ~/.bashrc

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  • Yeah, after reading the other comments in here, you should be able to re-read that page and see it's not the best advice.

    Top Tip: if you're testing things, you'd modify PATH in the current session first, check that fixes the problem and only then modify any environmental files like .bashrc, etc. so if something got borked you could just logout and in again...

    That page reminds me of Windows self-help pages that ask readers to defrag the harddrive in order to get a printer working.

  • help made mistake with export and ~/.bashrc

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  • They're just using that symbol / rune instead of "th"... you'll get the hang of it after a couple of reads

  • Holiday Upgrade Disasters

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  • I started getting the base install on a separate SD card yesterday, and realised there's still loads of things I'd missed in my Ansible script, like reducing journal writes, etc.

    So, I just put the old SD card back in and left it until I can look at it again

    Small steps...

  • Holiday Upgrade Disasters

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  • Look into radicale if that's you're using NC as a DAV server - and everyone's using their phone as a client

    It's so simple & lightweight (but admittedly the webgui is admin only - no visible calendar)

  • Holiday Upgrade Disasters

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  • Just a friendly word of caution:

    if they don't appreciate what you're telling them to do, ... and if the minis you're building fail to do some magic data protection that they / you hadn't thought about... it'll be your "fault"

    They need to take some ownership

  • Holiday Upgrade Disasters

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  • Nice way to find (& document?) The system though

  • Holiday Upgrade Disasters

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  • That's an interesting process... you could improve it with some ansible - if that's your thing... or use snapshots on the VM(s) and roll back?

    That's kinda what I'm doing with this (physical obviously) Pi... take a full backup now and again... do upgrades... rollback when completely borked.

  • Holiday Upgrade Disasters

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  • Ah, yes, half-finished notes... had similar issues in the past too.

    But it's a great feeling when you finally understand something, update the notes (and maybe the Arch wiki ) and sleep a little better...

  • test

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  • I dont want to dump on anyone, but this is v2.4.0 and v1.0.0 was last month...

    With 4 tickets...

    I'm also unsure that refering to zero knowledge architecture is the correct phrase here. Instead I think it should be zero trust in this context.

    But as other repos are French, perhaps the AI is from translations.

    In short - a good idea, but needs time - and clearer explanations of what's going on

  • Deutsche Bank launches Wero app for customers

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  • Not sure about "dangerous", Mastercard and Visa have to comply with PCIDSS...

    I'm not sure if Google and Apple do...

  • Primary time scale failure at NIST Boulder campus; significant impact on NTP services

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  • How / does this affect ntppool.org? (Which I refer to)

    Seems all is calm there, but I guess they ref those time sources too?

  • Deutsche Bank launches Wero app for customers

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  • Wero is set to be integrated into the Deutsche Bank Mobile and Postbank banking apps at a later date, allowing users to choose between the Wero app and their familiar mobile banking app.

    So... still reliant on Google & Amazon then? Or can their apps run independently of those companies?

  • Backups.. Pull or Push?

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  • Yes, that was my thoughts - or just have hourly backups where some will work, some won't...

    Bit messy, but simple.