Urgh! One of my refurbed HDDs in my pool is starting to error.

I bought them at the end of 2024 for 74 euro each. I check now and they are 188!

And this is just as I migrated all my pics from Google to Immich!

I was hoping the prices would have settled down by the time I needed to think about this and upgrade/refactor at the same time.

#SelfHosting #ZFS #Immich #TrueNAS

Spent the last couple days doing disaster recovery exercises to check the ability to restore from my offsite ZFS replicated datasets (sourced from TrueNAS). Turns out I learned a lot, and while restore was a success I've also decided to increase resiliency. I'm already replicating the raw encrypted data from TrueNAS -> offsite, but now from there I've added in replication to a friend's server (buddy backups ftw), as well as the 5TB of free space I had doing nothing in Google Drive. Turns out `zfs send -R -w -p` and piping to a file and then just rsync'ing off to a non ZFS target server or rclone'ing into Google Drive works a treat. You can then also do incrementals on top of that base replica.

While the TrueNAS replication all happens to the offsite server automatically, the subsequent replication from it to Google Drive and my buddy's server will happen manually on a weekly basis. This is so I can get comfortable with the entire process, identify any weaknesses or pitfalls, and decide if I actually *want* to try and automate this part away with some regular smoke-tests, or keep it manual so that I stay fresh in the event I need to do DR for real.

I also believe that one day I will move away from TrueNAS and just run my own ZFS/NFS/SMB/syncoid/sanoid system based on NixOS. Probably not any time soon, but as a long term goal. I don't really like how TrueNAS handles zettarepl and a few other things.

#selfhosted #truenas

Building an Enterprise Homelab - Part 9: Lessons From the Build

https://rant.mvh.dev/building-an-enterprise-homelab-part-9-lessons-from-the-build/

#selfhosted #selfhosting #1password #truenas #zfs #retrospective

🇳🇱 Gisteren ben ik bezig geweest met TrueNAS en NextCloud. De laatste keer is alweer een tijdje geleden, dus ik was helemaal kwijt waar ik mee bezig was.

TrueNAS draait op zich wel goed op mijn oude PC en NextCloud werkt ook, maar nu moet ik NextCloud bereikbaar zien te maken zodat ik er ook buitenshuis bij kan. En dat is nogal een gedoe, want ik moet allerlei dingen configureren waar ik te weinig kaas van gegeten heb, zoals tunneling, certificaten voor https en dat soort dingen. Erg frustrerend.

Ik zit er nu aan te denken om TrueNAS maar te laten voor wat het is en Ubuntu Server gaan gebruiken, waarop ik dan NextCloud los installeer. Daar zijn veel goed te volgen tutorials voor en ik heb NextCloud ook al eens werkend gekregen op een Raspberry Pi, wat veel minder gedoe was dan als applicatie binnen TrueNAS.

(...tenzij iemand een hele goede tutorial heeft voor het helemaal juist configureren van TrueNAS vóór ik er andere applicaties op installeer, zodat die niet gaan zeuren over onveilige verbindingen en meer van dat ge 💩 ...)

#TrueNAS #NextCloud #FrustrationToot #Argh

Building an Enterprise Homelab - Part 8: Letting Go of the Synology

https://rant.mvh.dev/building-an-enterprise-homelab-part-8-letting-go-of-the-synology/

#selfhosted #selfhosting #synology #truenas #zfs

Two Flatcar VMs Fought Over An iSCSI LUN Because I Screwed Up

https://rant.mvh.dev/two-flatcar-vms-fought-over-an-iscsi-lun-because-i-screwed-up/

#selfhosted #selfhosting #pangolin #terraform #opentofu #truenas #flatcar #iscsi

Always great when a CTO spews Marketing Talking Points...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCtFeukJs-E

Well folks TrueNAS ofically joins the circle of "Fuck you we make Enterprise money now" companies
The PFSense Netgate story all over again.

#truenas #openbsd #linux #youtube