The Easter Weekend Project:

Set up a cheap rental server (wanted to do #Hetzner, I like their cloud offering and used it to practice the setup, but went with the very aggressively priced low-end #ionos instead; 2€/month) with encrypted #ZFS to run #Headscale via #DockerCompose (with #Dockhand for the pretty UI).

This gives me a personal-use VPN „intranet“ to remotely access my growing self-hosted (#OnPrem #MacMini) zoo (#HomeAssistant, #PaperlessNGX, #VaultWarden, #Gitea) in a secure way.

#homelab gurus! I am considering replacing our old #Synology DS1525 with a #TrueNAS, mostly because I want to run #Immich, #Paperlessngx, and #jellyfin on it without having to deal with Syno's out-of-date #Docker implementation.

If you're running TrueNAS, two questions:

1) how hard was it to get automated backups of #Windows and #Linux systems set up? I do appreciate Syno's built-in backup tools.

2) how bad an idea would it be to run these compute loads on the NAS vs a separate compute node? We are *not* heavy users - just the two of us and we're pretty casual about home use, so it feels like loads would be pretty minimal...

Any thoughts and suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

So I’ve set up my private Paperless-NGX server in a FreeBSD Jail. Quite happy about it.
Special thanks to grembo@ for the great pkg and the even greater man page (https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=paperless-ngx&sektion=7&manpath=freebsd-ports)

Now I need to find a proper scanner I can mass-feed: our konica Bizhub 450i at work is such a piece of crap.

#PaperlessNGX #FreeBSD #Jail #SelfHosting

Arghh!!! #PaperlessNGX removed the split action when the new PDF Editor was added, but the editor is soooo much harder to do splits in. Yes, I like that I can rotate pages, but splitting is a nightmare! 😡

The original editor, had bigger images, and could add splits with a series of clicks in a single dialog. It was a little clunky, but serviceable.

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#PaperlessNGX on #NixOS crisis averted. 😎

An accidental update from SQLite to PostgreSQL looked like it lost all my documents 😱

`nixos rebuild switch` was not behaving consistently and a build where I had added the `database.createLocally = true;` was added after a successful build, so it didn't actually run PostgreSQL. In desperation, I did an overdue upgrade to NixOS 25.11 and it worked, but I had dozens of documents loaded and when it rebuilt, it found and used that new option...

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Gerade 32 Seiten mit dem #Einzugsscanner gescannt...

Dann wieder in die Küche zum Essen geschaut.
Dort ist ein Lärm...

Oh.

Naja das Dokument ist im SMB Share gelandet und da hat es #paperlessngx geholt, #OCR gemacht und den Inhalt per ML bewertet...
Da ging der CPU Lüfter von dem #Proxmox mal kurz auf Vollast an^^